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

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….

Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it..

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..

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….

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

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..

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..

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democ….

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

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

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

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….

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….

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 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, ….

In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the ….

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..

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 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….

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