I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
AL FRANKENYou 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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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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.
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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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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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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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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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