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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
Al Franken
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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
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Alan Stuart Franken
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Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay. But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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I want to reclaim 'liberal.' I'm a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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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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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices. You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections - the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.
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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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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology I myself own an iPhone.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn't understand and couldn't afford.
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Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families. 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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