Al Franken on agency
Al Franken250 quotes“And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.”
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
Al FrankenAl Franken There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
Al FrankenAl Franken The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
Al FrankenAl Franken 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.
Al FrankenAl Franken I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
Al FrankenAl Franken Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
Al FrankenAl Franken I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
Al FrankenAl Franken It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
Al FrankenAl Franken The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
Al FrankenAl Franken When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
Al FrankenAl Franken 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.
Al FrankenAl Franken I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
Al FrankenAl Franken I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
Al FrankenAl Franken Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
Al FrankenAl Franken Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
Al FrankenAl Franken The 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.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs We know that the Russian’s interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
Al FrankenAl Franken Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
Al FrankenAl Franken Simply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority – can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.
Charles DuhiggCharles Duhigg Brand-Dropping’ is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we can make this the way of the future without jeopardizing any artist’s creative outlet or typical style.
Adam KlugerAdam Kluger The best agencies understood the importance of routines. The worst agencies were headed by people who never thought about it, and then wondered why no one followed their orders.
Charles DuhiggCharles Duhigg All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
Ada Louise HuxtableAda Louise Huxtable Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject… Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.
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