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

When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.

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.

And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.

Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.

If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.

The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.

There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.

I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.

Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.

I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.

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

Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.

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.

The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.

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

He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

We want a fully comprehensive trade deal that reflects our deep, ongoing relationship, the friendship between our two countries.

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

I’m fed up with the idiots… the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.