Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
AL FRANKENWhen people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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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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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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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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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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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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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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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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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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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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