I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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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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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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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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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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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 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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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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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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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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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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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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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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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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