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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.

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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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Most 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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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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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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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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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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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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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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