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.

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 intense attention to what's happening.

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's easier just to perform.

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

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

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

I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.