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.

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.

When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

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

I don't think I'm an angry person. I think I'm a person who's angry. I'm angry at the Bush administration; I'm angry at the right wing media. And by that I don't mean the media is right wing. I mean, there is a part of the media that's not the mainstream media. That's Fox, that is 'The Wall Street Journal' editorial page.

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

As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, 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. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.