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.
AL FRANKENMost Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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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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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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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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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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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.
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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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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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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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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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