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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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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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It's really building Air America that I'm focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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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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My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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Let's keep the Internet weird. Let's keep the Internet free.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It's just hard to get comfortable with Gore - it was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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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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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it - as many times as you want. You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch they are definitely not a secret.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It's easy being me.
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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He's helped me out on a couple of occasions when I've given speeches to corporations where he'd have a good... He'd give me some good information.
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I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.
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One thing I've noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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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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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.
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I do have a self-censor everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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