When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
AL FRANKENThey’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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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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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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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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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 might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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