“I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.”

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.

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

Live a life less ordinary.

There is many a white man less fortunate and less well equipped than I am. In fact, I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient – in America.

Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it.

The moment these things are provided, we will have a different world order and nuclear weapons will become less of a threat.

In New York, I was excited about the music in New York because the only music that I was more or less involved with in the South was either country and western or hillbilly music as we used to call it when I was a kid and, ah, gospel.

Donald Trump’s rule at that time, the only thing that you couldn’t joke about was a suggestion that he has less money that he claimed to.

I felt his eyes devour me as i moved around the room. He assessed me head to toe without blinking, and a hot ache shivered through me. A kiss would’ve been less intimate.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.