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

You can't just provide power, you also need public education.

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.

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.

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."

This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.

One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.