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I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to.

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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.

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Philosophy was once considered science.

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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.

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Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals living in the gritty, ugly, dirty neighborhoods sensible people are trying to flee.

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Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.

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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.

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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: November 14th, 1947

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