“A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.”

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

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.

I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.

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

I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.

It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.

To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.

Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’

When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.

This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.

At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.

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

I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.

If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.

creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It’s a thin line between celebration and menace.

I like making money like anybody else, and I’m paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.

I’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.

It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a captive audience.

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.