Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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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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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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