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.
AL FRANKENTeen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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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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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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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’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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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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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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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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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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