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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.

Al Franken

My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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Comedian Dad Especially Love People
At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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Bedroom Government Keep Out Search Seizure Talk Unreasonable
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.
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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Anything Away Been Block Build Country Many
Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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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.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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Afraid Ballot Check Circle Mis-fill Our People Subset Tend Voter Wrong

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