“My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.”

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.

No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.

The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.

Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.

Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.

I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.

My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball’s grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball’s grandfather.

My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense.

My dad was a terrible businessman.

My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.

My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.