“I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.”

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.

Our – our friends can’t trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them. We won’t even give them offensive weapons.

The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.