“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.”

You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?

But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.

We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.

There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.

Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.

The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.

Google might be doping the horses.

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

But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.

That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.

Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.

National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.

The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.

They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

I’m an actor who evolves once the shoot starts.

Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.

Self-love means to appreciate who you are, while being committed to your evolution.

Improving yourself is part of your growth and evolution.

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.