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.

Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will think, "That sounds good, but I don't believe they're going to do everything they can to build those towers."

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.

There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.

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.

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

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