Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

Democracy is interactive... Its a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.

I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction.

I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.

Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.

I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend.

To have no set purpose in one's life is harlotry of the will.

I may not have all the time I thought I had.

Open source isn't about saving money, it's about doing more stuff, and getting incremental innovation with the finite budget you have.

I stay away from big chunks of carbs and try to keep it lean, even when Im competing.

Genre/forms are institutional questions mainly. Like matter to MFA programs in terms of which workshop you can teach.

To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with psychological niceties of Buddhist philosophy.

I really like 'Girls.' I know everybody does, but I love 'Girls.

You'd think when you saw my old MTV stuff that I was always drunk and high and all that stuff. I wasn't.

Everything I talk about in stand-up is my experiences as an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man, as a human being.