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

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.

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.

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.

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

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