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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.

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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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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.

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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.

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Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.

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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.

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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'

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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

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I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.

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Whining is anger through a small opening.

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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it's uncomfortable to talk about.

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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.

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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.

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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.

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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.

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The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.

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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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Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

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