For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
AL FRANKENThe important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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