I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.

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.

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.

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.

You can't just provide power, you also need public education.

I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.

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.