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"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."
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"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"

"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."

"I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too."

"A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries."

"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."

"I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness."

"There were a number of referendums in '98 that most of the things I voted for passed. That's very satisfying when you feel that most of the country is in step with your views."
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"But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."

"Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case."

"But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives."

"Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show."

"It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed."

"I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this."

"In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings."

"I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times."
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