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.

I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.

I think a lot of the reason people are attracted to the Keystone pipeline is because at least we're doing something. There's a fear that society will collapse if it's not acting. To contrast those actions with other actions is important in making it feel plausible. Maybe we must have the size of the dream meet the size of the threat.

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

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.

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