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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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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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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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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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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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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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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