You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
AL FRANKENIf I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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