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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.

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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
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Alan Stuart Franken
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I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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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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There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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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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I'm a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I'm invited to all the inaugural balls.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families. They're trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they're worried about declining home values, they're scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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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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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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