“As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.”

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.

Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.

During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.

I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.

I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.

Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.

If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.

A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.

You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.

The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.

I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.

I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.