Chris Hughes

“I think Twitter is great.”

“No, I'm not running for office someday.”

“Anybody can be ambitious.”

“I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.”

“I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.”

“Ads shouldn't be in people's way.”

“The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.”

“I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.”

“It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.”

“The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.”

“Buzz is not what I am looking for.”

“I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.”

“You name it, I'm interested in a lot of things.”

“I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.”

“By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.”