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.
AL FRANKENAfter 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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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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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 don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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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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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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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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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Some 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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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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