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I'm a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I'll never stop.

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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
Actor
Comedian
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Journalist
Politician
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Television Producer
United States Senator
Manhattan borough
New York City
Alan Stuart Franken
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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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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices. You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections - the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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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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