I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.

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.

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.

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.

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

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.