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.
AL FRANKENGood 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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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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 don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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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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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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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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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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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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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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