You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.

How far back to the elementary school core curriculum do we have to go to get someone on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology caught up?

Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.

When in doubt, I can stare blankly. The rubber face. There's only so many ways you can stare incredulously at the camera and tilt an eyebrow, but that's your old standby: What would Buster Keaton do?

I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that wealth gives you.

I can't believe I'm comforting a billionaire.

Poor people have sh*tty lobbyists.