Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
AL FRANKENGood schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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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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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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