When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
AL FRANKENTeen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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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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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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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 way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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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 from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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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.
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Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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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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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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