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Life tests our willingness, in ways large and small, to tell the truth.

I'm not insulting Trump supporters; I'm calling the people that CNN puts on television terrible representatives of the views of conservatives.

I'm famously humble.

There is that definition of leadership that says, 'Leadership is convincing people to do things that they otherwise wouldn't have done because you've made them believe it's the right thing to do.' And a great speech can do that.

Life tests our willingness, in ways large and small, to tell the truth.

There are a lot of heartbroken, anxious people that thought better of their country. We're heartbroken by how far Trump has gotten to the most powerful position in the world.

We are drowning in partisan rhetoric that is just true enough not to be a lie; in industry-sponsored research; in social media's imitation of human connection; in legalese and corporate double-speak.

Humor connects us, especially in politics. It's a way of surprising one another with shared context and experience.

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

I worked on one speech about the financial system that caused the Dow to drop, like, 200 points.

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.

When in doubt, mock the powerful, not the powerless.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. That's what you have to do: you have to be confident in your potential and aware of your inexperience.

We try to talk when the microphones are on the same way we would when the microphones are off.

As a rule, I think people in L.A. are interested in any writer who brings a different skill set and experiences. There's an attraction to novelty and to anyone whose writing isn't based in screenwriting. I had that novelty.

I will never apologize for selective editing to make myself look better.

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

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.

I don't live in the city of L.A. I live in West Hollywood.

We try to talk when the microphones are on the same way we would when the microphones are off.