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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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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
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I think if you're going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit, that he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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I want to reclaim 'liberal.' I'm a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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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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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee - a tradition I'd like very much to continue.
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I think Hell exists on Earth. It's a psychological state, or it can be a physical state. People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell. I think there are all kinds of different hells. It's not a place you go to after you die.
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If you use a cell phone - as I do - your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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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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One thing I've noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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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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