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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.

Al Franken

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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Some of George W. Bush's friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. 'That worked for everyone else,' God said.
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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people. The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.
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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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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.'
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I don't think I'm an angry person. I think I'm a person who's angry. I'm angry at the Bush administration I'm angry at the right wing media. And by that I don't mean the media is right wing. I mean, there is a part of the media that's not the mainstream media. That's Fox, that is 'The Wall Street Journal' editorial page.
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It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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One thing I've noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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