Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will think, "That sounds good, but I don't believe they're going to do everything they can to build those towers."

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

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.

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

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.

Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will think, "That sounds good, but I don't believe they're going to do everything they can to build those towers."

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.