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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.

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.