A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.

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

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.

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.

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

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.

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.