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.

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

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

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

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 politics.

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

Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will think, "That sounds good, but I don't believe they're going to do everything they can to build those towers."