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

A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable in front of a crowd. I felt like I was calling on all those other experiences.

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.

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.

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.

History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.