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One thing I've noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
Al Franken
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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
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United States Senator
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Alan Stuart Franken
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.
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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 get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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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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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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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 government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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We need to be pro-science we have to go back to science.
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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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My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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Liberals don't hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
Al Franken
The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.
Al Franken
