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Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.

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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
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United States Senator
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.
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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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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'm for Israel's right to exist.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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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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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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I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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I couldn't think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow's leaders.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign. But I think it's a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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