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

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

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

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.

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.

What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.

In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the white and black populists working together in the nineteenth century.