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

If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.

My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.

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

We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

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.