I think a lot of the reason people are attracted to the Keystone pipeline is because at least we're doing something. There's a fear that society will collapse if it's not acting. To contrast those actions with other actions is important in making it feel plausible. Maybe we must have the size of the dream meet the size of the threat.

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.

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.

I don't have any particular plans in mind. What I see is that you can become so focused on the idea of running that winning becomes your motivation, as opposed to what you stand for being your motivation.

I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics. People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?".

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.