I Guess Because The Shows Were Activist

When I Countered That Archie Bunker Didn't Have To Put Down A Race Of People To Say That, He Replied, 'and You're The Dumbest White Kid I've Ever Met.'

... For All Our Alarm, It Is Clear That The Religious Right Is Responding To A Real Hunger In Our Society... A Deep-seated Yearning For Stable Values... When Conservative Christian Groups Talk Of Failures In Our Educational System, The Erosion Of Our Moral Standards, And The Waste Of Young Lives, They Are Addressing Real And Legitimate Concerns... Among Secularists, The Aversion Toward Discussion Of Moral Values, Let Alone Religion, Can Reach Absurd Extremes.

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.

I Think What's Dangerous Is 24 Hours A Day, 335 Channels, Or Whatever The Hell There Is. Too Much Is Too Much.

I Was Writing For Live Television. And I Said To Myself, Someday, Soon As I Can, I Have Got To Do A Situation Comedy.