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I Had An Unusually Large-sized Head, Though This Was Not Uncommon For A Baby In The Midwest. The Craniums In Our Part Of The Country Were Designed To Leave A Little Extra Room For The Brain To Grow In Case One Day We Found Ourselves Exposed To Something We Didn't Understand, Like A Foreign Language, Or A Salad.

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I Had An Unusually Large-sized Head, Though This Was Not Uncommon For A Baby In The Midwest. The Craniums In Our Part Of The Country Were Designed To Leave A Little Extra Room For The Brain To Grow In Case One Day We Found Ourselves Exposed To Something We Didn't Understand, Like A Foreign Language, Or A Salad.

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Well, "the Washington Post" Three Weeks Ago Had This Investigation And They Said That President Obama Has Now Raised More Money From Wall Street And The Banks For This Election Cycle Than All - Than All Eight Republicans Combined. I Don't Want To Say That, Because If That's The Truth, That Wall Street Already Has Their Man And His Name Is Barack Obama, Then We've Got A Much Bigger Problem.

Nobody Had A Credit Card When I Was A Kid. No One Had Credit Card Debt. But These Big Companies And Banks Wanted To Know How To Get More Money Out Of People - Get Them Charging Things.

The Left, Liberals, Believe That If We Just Have More Gun Control Laws, All The Problems Are Going To Go Away. Well, I Don't Think So. I Don't Think So. I Think - Yes, It Will, It Will Be Reduced. There's No Question About That.

Openness, Transparency - These Are Among The Few Weapons The Citizenry Has To Protect Itself From The Powerful And The Corrupt... And That Is The Best Thing That Wikileaks Has Done.

Capitalism Is Against The Things That We Say We Believe In - Democracy, Freedom Of Choice, Fairness. It's Not About Any Of Those Things Now. It's About Protecting The Wealthy And Legalizing Greed.

Oprah's Got Good Politics, She's Got A Good Heart, And She'll Have Us All Up Jazzercising At Six In The Morning. This Cannot Be A Bad Thing, And Reading A Book While We're Jazzercising. So America Would Be Better Off If Oprah Were President.

Most Liberals I Know Were For Invading Afghanistan Right After 9/11.

Under Reagan Came The Idea Of Putting Your Pension Plan In The Stock Market, Which Wasn't A Guaranteed Pension.

If I Were A Capitalist I Would Not Give My Employees Health Insurance With No Deductible, Which I Do, Including Dental, And Paid Pregnancy Leave. That's Not Called Capitalism, That's Called Being A Christian And Someone Who Believes In Democracy, So That Everyone Should Get A Fair Slice Of The Pie.

If We Say, 'the Government Sucks,' We're Kind Of Saying That We Suck.

I'm Not A Proselytizer. I Was Raised Catholic. I Am A Catholic.

Capitalism And Democracy Are The Opposite Of Each Other. Capitalism Is A System That Guarantees That A Few Are Going To Do Very Well, And Everybody Else Is Going To Serve The Few. Democracy Means Everybody Has A Seat At The Table. Everybody.

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The Nra Hates Freedom. They Don't Want You To Have The Freedom To Send Your Children To School & Expect Them To Come Home Alive.

The Days Of Using My Name As A Pejorative Are Now Over. The Right Wing Turned Me Into An Accidental Spokesperson For The Liberal, Majority Agenda.

The American Public Believes That Health Care Is A Right And Not A Commodity.

Back In The Late '90s, I Put Together A Humorous Newsmagazine Program Called 'the Awful Truth' For Bravo. We Helped One Guy Get An Organ Transplant Whose Insurance Company Had Refused To Pay. I Thought, If We Could Save A Guy's Life In A 10-minute Segment On Cable, What Could We Do If We Devoted A Whole Movie To A Whole Bunch Of People?

'zero Dark Thirty' Is A Disturbing, Fantastically-made Movie. It Will Make You Hate Torture.

Healthcare Should Be Between The Doctor And The Patient. And If The Doctor Says Something Needs To Be Done, The Government Should Guarantee It Gets Paid For.

I'm A Highly Flawed Individual, As We All Are, And Because I Was Raised By Jesuits, I'm Constantly, 'what Is It About Me And What I Can Do To Be Better?'

Ask Anyone On Social Security If Their Check Comes On Time Every Month. Like Clockwork. And It Comes Through The So-called Dilapidated U.s. Mail. My Dad's Check Literally Will Come On The Same Day Every Month. The Government Has Been Quite Good And Efficient At Creating A Number Of Systems.

I'm Caught Up Probably Just As Much In The Consumer Culture As The Next Person.

If Your Bank Took Bailout Money, Take Your Money Out Of That Bank And Put It In A Credit Union. Credit Unions Are Owned By The People Who Have Their Money In The Credit Union.

I've Made A Lot Of Enemies In All The Right Places, And There Aren't Enough Hours In The Day To Respond To Either The Well-financed Corporate Hacks Or The Lowly Stalkers Who Seek To Libel Me Or Make A Buck Off The Fact That I'm A Well-known Person.

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I Assume Everything I'm Saying In An Email Or Saying On The Telephone Is Being Looked At.

A Lot Of Political People, Especially People On The Left, Have Forgotten The Importance Of Humor As An Incredible Weapon, And A Vehicle Through Which To Affect Change.

Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People.

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