"I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for."

"Gary Bauer is a very good - he's a good friend of mine."

"When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both."

"I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it."

"The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families. They're trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they're worried about declining home values, they're scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq."

"We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven't been addressed, and I'd like to stand with them. Also, I'd like to get their views on immigration."

"I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime."

"I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you're sure of what you're doing and you're working with allies."

"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."

"I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it."

"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."

"When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms."

"When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries."

"Technology is an incredible tool - it connects people to each other, creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans."

"Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written "Today I will masterbate--if I want to!"

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

"I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens."

"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from"

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

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

"Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way."

"When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation."

"Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world."

"I'm for Israel's right to exist."

"Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you can't do something else and also make it sell."

"I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve."

"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."

"Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him."

"Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I."

"In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself."

"Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement."

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

"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."

"I just can't sit still and meditate; that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means."

"Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate."

"The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens."

"Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build."

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

"Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet."

"Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point."

"My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all."

"I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit."

"I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do."

"My dad was a terrible businessman."

"Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy."

"Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum."

"I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam."

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

"Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'"

"People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values."