“Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.”

Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.

My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.

Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.

You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.

The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.

The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.

I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.

I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.

I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.

Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?

Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.

And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.

I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.

The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.

If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. I’ve come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death…is the true measure of the Divine within us.

Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.

You can get him out of your study, but you can’t get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise.

Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.

Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head.

The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.

Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to The Today Show,