It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
AL FRANKENBut when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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