"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."

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Source : "We need transparency on domestic surveillance" by Al Franken, www.cnn.com. July 23, 2013.

Al Franken

#Trust Quotes #Government Quotes #Law Quotes

“You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.”
“Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.”
“I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to the eternal. I say to myself above all, keep alive your conviction that there are sacred elements in the life in the practice of the life that must be respected. But the conviction in the existence of the sacred does not necessarily imply that you need to believe in a creator, because we are the ones that made the sacred.”
“To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some, but all follow the same basic template, which is, fundamentally, no matter what the circumstance, Southern women make the effort. Which is why even the girls in the trailer parks paint their nails. And why overstressed working moms still bake three dozen homemade cookies for the school fund-raiser. And why you will never see Reese Witherspoon wearing sweatpants. Or Oprah take a nap.”
“No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.”
“I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.”
“Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.”
“Youâ€™re probably smarter than you present yourself.”

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