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.
AL FRANKENI’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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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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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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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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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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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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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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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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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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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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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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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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