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Al Franken Biography

Alan Stuart Franken (born May 21, 1951) is an American comedian, writer, producer, author, and politician who served as a United States Senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018. He became well known in the 1970s and 1980s as a performer on the television comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL). After decades as a comedic actor and writer, he became a prominent liberal political activist, hosting The Al Franken Show on Air America Radio.

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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.

Children, Grandmother, Focus, Fine, Cook

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. 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.

Campaign, Career, Careers, People, Satirist, Thinking

In my first week as a U. S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

Court, Firsts, Hearing, Judging, Privilege, Supreme

We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven't been addressed, and I'd like to stand with them. Also, I'd like to get their views on immigration.

Debt, Immigration, Owe, Unique, Views

I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.

Art, Arts, Element, People, Sort, Writing

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.

Class, Hard Work, Labor, Lifetime, Promise, Secure

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Appreciate, Inspirational, Lessons, Mistakes, Motivational, Success

I think if you're going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit, that he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.

America, Axes, Axis, Think, Thinking

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

Banking, Happens, Heaven

I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

Doe, Everybody, Pathological, Self

I want to reclaim 'liberal. ' I'm a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.

Liberal, Liberals, Reclaim, Think, Thinking, Want

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.

Dad, Graduated, Salesman, School, Two

I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you're sure of what you're doing and you're working with allies.

Allies, Attacking, Believe, Country

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.

Comedian, Communicating, People, Pressure, Producer

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. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.

Everybody, Mean, Real, Spiritual, Thing, Understanding

The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

Corporations, Amendments, Fourth Amendment, Apply, Fourth, Amendment

You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F. D. R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.

Elected, Firsts, Should, Show, Think, Thinking

He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.

America, Four, Higher, Politician, Rating, Unpopular

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

Serious Business, Rooms, God Knows, Plenty, Politics, Humor

I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day. '

Couple, Fresh, Jobs, Kept, Seven, Seven Months

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