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"Discussion in America means dissent."
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"Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?"
"America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV."
"In America everything's about who's number one today."
"If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America."
"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
"We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide."
"Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date."
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"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."
"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess."
"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."
"Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man."
"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."
"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."
"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
"The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep."
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