I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
Al Franken
During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important... →
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... →
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... →
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a... →
Tommy Franks
If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences... →
I had a hope that the Iraqis would embrace a new government, would establish a new Iraq very quickly, and, but I never had that as an expectation.