I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
AL FRANKENI don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
More Al Franken Quotes
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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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.
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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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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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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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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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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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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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