I would like to be able to write in my own voice.

It's always been a dream of mine to write comedy and be creative.

There's only so much mistrust we can take before things get much worse.

It's certainly true that presidents have confidantes who rise above what you would call just staff.

I had never really planned on being a speechwriter.

I'm motivated by a bottomless well of anger. It's a joke, but I don't think I don't mean it.

Humor is a way of saying we're all seeing the same ridiculous, absurd, infuriating things together.

Nationalism is not that hard. It's not that hard to incite people against another, and it's also - and this is the harder thing: Democrats have, and the challenge we have all the time, is we believe in governing and governance and trying to find middle ground.

Little things had to go wrong for Donald Trump to become president: Comey, emails, all that stuff. Big things did make Trump possible. Big, cultural, political, economic forces opened the door to someone like Trump.

One thing that is for certain is that there are tens of millions of people who are deeply unsatisfied with the way they get their political news.

'Pod Save America' will be a kingmaker.

Making '1600 Penn' was really fun, and I learned a lot.

I'm famously humble.

Every technology company should have a red button somewhere in the headquarters where, if they realize they've caused more societal harm than they expected and done more harm than good, they press the button, and the company dissolves instantly.

We've been dealing with censorship around multimedia, about multinational companies and the content they create, for a very long time.

You look at what animates Democratic voters; you look at what animates Democratic politicians: it's health care. It's increasingly climate. It is wages and economic issues. It's issues around reproductive freedom and criminal justice reform and inequality.

People say that making money in the content-media game is hard, and that is just, like, not my experience. It's super-confusing, 'cause everyone's like, 'Oh, how are you going to monetize?' It's easy: just start talking, and then money rolls in.

I don't know the venture fund terms. I don't know what a seed round is. I want nothing to do with it.

It's so unfair that Barack Obama, this cool, charming guy, also has good comedic timing.

I am a deeply awkward person; I am not cool.

The conversation on Twitter and the way people are in the world are very different.

I had a really fun career in TV right after I left politics.

Republicans paint everything that Democrats have been for as socialism, too far to the left, as extreme, and it didn't matter how moderated it was; it didn't matter that Obamacare started out as a compromise. You might as well say what you're actually for and show what you really are.

Because the speech is an argument, and a great speech makes an argument well, the act of making that argument is a really important part of how the policy process coalesces and solidifies both for the candidate and also the people serving that candidate.