My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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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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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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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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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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