My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

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

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.

I'm for Israel's right to exist.

There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.

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

No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.