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Al Franken

b: New York City, New York, USA, May 21, 1951

Alan Stuart "Al" Franken is the junior United States Senator from Minnesota. He is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which affiliates with the national Democratic Party. Franken achieved note as a writer and performer for the television show Saturday Night Live from its inception in 1975 before moving to writing and acting in films and television shows. He then became a political commentator, author of five books and host of a nationally syndicated radio show on the Air America Radio network. In 2008, Franken narrowly defeated incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman, by 312 votes, after a mandatory statewide manual recount. Coleman contested the outcome in court, but the Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously upheld Franken's victory on June 30, 2009. Franken was sworn in to the Senate on July 7, 2009.

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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.

You know, when Colin Powell said, if you break it, you own it, which Colin Powell said was the Pottery Barn rule, which, by the way, it isn‘t -- we at Air America Radio called Pottery Barn. You can break stuff at Pottery Barn accidentally and you don‘t have to pay for it.

[Republicans] are against the so-called "death tax." They claim it punishes the most productive members of society: children of the incredibly wealthy.