“My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.”

The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.

It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.

I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.

Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.

I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.

It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.

The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,

But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.

I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.

I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.

Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.

Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.

The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.

I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.

Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.

You wouldn’t want to see a movie where the bad guys triumph over the good guys all the time. You’d get bummed out, and you’d just stay at home and watch the news.

Now people want Brian Williams to resign, but it could have a happy ending. Apparently what he said was such a blatant departure from the truth, today he got an offer from Fox News.

It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

Once I posed nude for a magazine. I’ve never been back to THAT newstand.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

I became a journalist because I didn’t want to have to rely on the press for information… I only read it to make sure of whatever everyone else thinks is going on, because it’s useful to know what people think is the news.

It’s better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else.