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 FRANKENThe 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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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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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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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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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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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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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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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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