I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
AL FRANKENThe next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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