They've got some legitimate concerns. We will fix whatever they suggest that we fix. It's pretty apparent that there needs to be better oversight.


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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
SAM LEVENSON
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her l...
SAM LEVENSON
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all...
SAM LEVENSON
I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.
SAM KINISON
I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you ...
SAM KINISON
I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to wo...
SAM KINISON
I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
SAM KINISON
Everything can be satirized.
SAM KINISON
I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'...
SAM KINISON
I'm attracted to heartbreakers.
SAM KINISON
It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
SAM KINISON
Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
SAM KINISON
If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
SAM KINISON
I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
SAM KINISON
AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
SAM KINISON
Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
SAM KINISON
Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.
SAM KINISON
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
SAM KINISON
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up....
SAM KINISON
Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water sl...
SAM KINISON
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
SAM KINISON
Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attit...
SAM KINISON
I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn&...
SAM KINISON
My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
SAM KINISON
You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's no...
SAM KINISON
You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
SAM KEEN
A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that ...
SAM KEEN
Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wr...
SAM KEAN
I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your p...
SAM KEAN
Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you...
SAM KEAN