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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.

You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.

I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.

Ironically, one of the clearer threats to consumer privacy is the government's largely unchecked ability to collect your sensitive information without due process.

The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities in American history... The real problem is that they're using these capabilities to make us vulnerable.

What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.

I long ago lost track of the number of times the Obama administration has assured everyone that its vacuum-cleaner approach to electronic surveillance does not threaten the privacy or the rights of Americans.

There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.