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 FRANKENMy parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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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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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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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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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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