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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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We know that the Russian's interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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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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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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I just can't sit still and meditate that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.
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The way I see it, I'm not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I'm going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign. But I think it's a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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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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As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda, I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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