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

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.

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.

It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.

If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.

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

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.