"Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs"

"I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place."

"If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world."

"I can always live by my pen."

"I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope."

"I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong."