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I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

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The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

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Service dogs raise their masters' sense of well-being.

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One thing I've noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.

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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.

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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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Let's keep the Internet weird. Let's keep the Internet free.

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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.

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It's really building Air America that I'm focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.

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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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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. 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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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn't do the only job they're supposed to have, the only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.

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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.

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It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.

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I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.

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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.

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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.

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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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Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'

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Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.

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