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Al Franken

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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
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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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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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When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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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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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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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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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written Today I will masterbate--if I want to!
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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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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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I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it.
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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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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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I'm a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I'll never stop.
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There's no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity, the news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, 'Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.'
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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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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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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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I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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