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I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.

Al Franken

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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
Actor
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Alan Stuart Franken
Alan Stuart Al Franken
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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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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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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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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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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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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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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Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.
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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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There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.
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I'm for Israel's right to exist.
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The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. The Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to Silicon Valley. And you can't impeach Google if it breaks its 'Don't be evil' campaign pledge.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.
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