Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
AL FRANKENI once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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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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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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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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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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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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