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

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.

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

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.

What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.

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

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.