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

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

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

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

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

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?".

I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.