As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
AL FRANKENThe Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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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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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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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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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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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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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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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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