“You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.”

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.

People think if they voted for somebody, they should reflexively defend everything they do or say. And if you voted against somebody, you should just as reflexively oppose everything they do or say. It’s not very helpful.

Nothing is personal. Everything is play.

The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you’ve ever seen, everything you’ve ever heard.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

And I’ve always said, ‘If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn’t necessary.’ We need to be able to understand that if we’re going to make real progress.

Read, read read. Read everything.

We have been told to ask about everything: Will it leave us free?