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Lampoon was a very collegial operation, though "collegial" usually means "friendly" and it wasn't that friendly. But we were tight, like a family.
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People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.
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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.
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Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
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I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
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America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
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I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets out with more pollution at greater expense, and more harm to the environment than petroleum, but we'll come up with something.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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