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 FRANKENMistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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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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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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