As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local high school, but I'm not sure I should mandate that for the entire country.

You can't just provide power, you also need public education.

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.

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

In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the white and black populists working together in the nineteenth century.

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 think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.