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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

Al Franken

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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
Actor
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Film Actor
Journalist
Politician
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United States Senator
Manhattan borough
New York City
Alan Stuart Franken
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers...Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.
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Liberals don't hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it's uncomfortable to talk about.
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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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Let's keep the Internet weird. Let's keep the Internet free.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.'
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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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I'm a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I'm invited to all the inaugural balls.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it - as many times as you want. You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch they are definitely not a secret.
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