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

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.

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.

People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"

I don't have any particular plans in mind. What I see is that you can become so focused on the idea of running that winning becomes your motivation, as opposed to what you stand for being your motivation.

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