I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
AL FRANKENSome of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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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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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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