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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
Al FrankenAl Franken Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
Al FrankenAl Franken I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
Al FrankenAl Franken And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
Al FrankenAl Franken 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 FrankenAl Franken It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
Al FrankenAl Franken I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
Al FrankenAl Franken You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
Al FrankenAl Franken But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
Al FrankenAl Franken We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
Al FrankenAl Franken There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
Al FrankenAl Franken Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
Al FrankenAl Franken The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
Al FrankenAl Franken 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.
Al FrankenAl Franken Google might be doping the horses.
Al FrankenAl Franken My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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A lot of my colleagues actually yell and curse at each other. I don’t do that.
Ted CruzTed Cruz I’m proud to say like many of my colleagues in the Conservative Party I am fully behind Theresa May’s Brexit plans.
Liz TrussLiz Truss I have always thought it a great privilege to have as my colleague in the Palit Chair of Chemistry such a distinguished pioneer in scientific research and education in Bengal as Sir Prafulla Ray.
C. V. RamanC. V. Raman In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
E. O. WilsonE. O. Wilson I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
Alan DundesAlan Dundes There’s nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.
Alan ClarkAlan Clark Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
Al FrankenAl Franken In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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