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I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.

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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.

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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.

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Technology is an incredible tool - it connects people to each other, creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.

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There's no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity, the news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, 'Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.'

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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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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.

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Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.

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Whining is anger through a small opening.

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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - 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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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.

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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

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Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.

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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.

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I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee - a tradition I'd like very much to continue.

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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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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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I'm for Israel's right to exist.

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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.

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