Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first..

I don't have any particular plans in mind. What I see is that you can become so focused on the idea of running that winning becomes your motivation, ….

One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politic….

This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth..

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics..

People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter..

There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. The….

Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them, they tend to pay pretty int….

Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it….

As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local high school, but I'm not….

Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will th….

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics..

Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote..

New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York..

I think part of the reason the Tea Party has resonated is that people feel disempowered. The Tea Party says, "You are out of power because of big gov….

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics. Peop….

I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot..

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse..

A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable in front of a crowd….

My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly..

If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes..