“I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.”

You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.

The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.

The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.

I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.

I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.

I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.

Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?

Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.

And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.

I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.

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.

Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

If it’s a situation in which the public is being given access, you can’t discriminate against the media and say, as a general matter, that the media don’t have access, because their access rights, of course, correspond with those of the public.

A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity

News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.