Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
AL FRANKENMy parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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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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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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