When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
AL FRANKENBy 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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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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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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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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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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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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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 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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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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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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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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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 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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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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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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