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 tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.

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. I felt like I was calling on all those other experiences.

People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"

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

What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.

What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.