“Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.”

Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.

I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.

And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.

After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.

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.

I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.

You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?

But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.

We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.

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

Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.

The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.

Google might be doping the horses.

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.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’

Any attempt to wriggle, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public.

I am the only candidate capable of delivering these three things as prime minister, and tonight it is clear that I am also the only one capable of drawing support from the whole of the Conservative party.

I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.

There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners.