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.
AL FRANKENHe didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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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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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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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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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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