“Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.”

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.

I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.

Whining is anger through a small opening.

The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.

Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.

Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.

My dad was a terrible businessman.

If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.

Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.

I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.

My mom sold real estate and did it part time.

Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.

It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.

I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.

There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.

On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.

Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn’t have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.

No American citizen can vote intelligently without knowledge of the ideas, political background, and commitments of each individual candidate.

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.

I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.

Both morally and practically, segregation is to me a basic injustice. Since I believe it to be so, I must attempt to remove it.

That part of the Englishman’s nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.