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One thing I've noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.

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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
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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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I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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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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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.
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Some of George W. Bush's friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. 'That worked for everyone else,' God said.
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There's going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration's relationship to Russia.
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Gary Bauer is a very good - he's a good friend of mine.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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I want to reclaim 'liberal.' I'm a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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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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My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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