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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.

Al Franken

I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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Exactly Kind Know Mean Mediaite Still Work
I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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Less More Office Prison Spent Time Wish
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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Absolute Career Good Made Odd People Sense Some Think
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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Care College Country Decline Health Home Kid Pay Scare Send Serve Try Value Worry
The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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College Concern Family Future Hold Home Kid Really
Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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Comedy Itself Think Value Well
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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Bear Children Cook Country Do Focus Grandmother Pray Women
Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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Hear Look No President
Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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Demagoguery Else Mean On Put Radio Sell Something Station
Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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Between Difference Do Job Minnesotan Satirist
The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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Apply Built Government Individual Institution Privacy Private Protect Right Sector Year
Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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Colleague Government Interest Many Republican
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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Back Carrier Cell Go Month Movement Phone Physical Record Wireless Year
Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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English First Language People Second Tend Time Voter
I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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Bipolar Earth Exist Hell People Physical Psychological State Think
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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Build Farm Guy Like Local National Rightwing Slowly Team

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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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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