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

My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.

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

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.

A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable in front of a crowd. I felt like I was calling on all those other experiences.

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

Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.