The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
AL FRANKENMy parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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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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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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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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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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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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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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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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