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.

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

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?"

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.

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.

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.

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.

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.

There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.

Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.

Life may be circular but its circumference keeps getting wider for us to grow.

If you work on yourself spiritually, you will be able to realize your potential

If we all want the peace and flooded the world with love, peace will wait for us at the shore.

My life is never empty because my heart is always full.

Take full account of the excellencies which you possess and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not.

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

There are places and moments in America where this nation’s destiny has been decided...Selma is such a place.

Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years before your final breath.

I would still invade Iraq even if Iraq never existed

I think there's two ways to make money online. One way is by selling other people's stuff, the other way is by selling your stuff.