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

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's easier just to perform.

It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.

History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.

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

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.