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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.