“Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.”

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.

Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.

If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.

The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.

Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.

that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.

If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.

Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.

But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

It’s always best to tell the truth.