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

There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.

The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.

I’m for Israel’s right to exist.

Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.

You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.

Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.

We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.

Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.

We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.

The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.

People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.

Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.

If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.

There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.

I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.

It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation’s police departments.

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.

If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.

A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.

There are very few people who have committed more to the pro-life discourse than Rob has. He’s spent time in jail. He has really lived it.

There can be no religious discourse which is in conflict with its environment and with the world and therefore, we Muslims need to modify this religious discourse. .