“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.”

My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.

But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.

That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.

Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.

National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.

The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.

They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.

He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.

During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.

There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

I want a president who can handle a cream soda.

Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.

People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I’ve always played live.

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance.

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy’s doubts is invincible.

Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.

Not yet is not no. It is still possible that tomorrow will be more precious than yesterday.

If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.