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

You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the number of laws? Number of employees? You could make arguments for either one. I tend to think the axis of the size of government is the wrong concern. But I do think that situating power more locally is a legitimate approach.

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.

Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them, they tend to pay pretty intense attention to what's happening.

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 about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.

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