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Government Quotes by Al Franken
- I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
- Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.
- Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
- When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable…
- 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…
- Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my…
- 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…
- The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information…
- 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. The…
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- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida