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. So the temptations of social media lead to some dissonance.

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.

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.

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.

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

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