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I want to reclaim 'liberal.' I'm a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.

Al Franken

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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
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My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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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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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology I myself own an iPhone.
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Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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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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Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.
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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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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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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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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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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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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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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'
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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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I'm for Israel's right to exist.
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