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I don't think we should reduce the corporate tax rate.
I'm going to Congress to break down the doors of power.
I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.
You can't just provide power, you also need public education.
I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.
I hope that we increasingly shift power to local governments.
It is an honor to join 'The Nation's esteemed editorial board.
I am not Pollyannaish about the depths of the challenges we face.
Anti-corruption is a core constitutional value. It always has been.
The work of being a citizen is hard and annoying, but it can pay off.
One of the things I care about a lot is public financing in elections.
The key to fixing public financing is to free politics from big money.
To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line.
What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.
The corruption that hides in plain sight is the real threat to our democracy.
My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.
Every constitutional standard is engaged in difficult but important line-drawing.
I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.
I joke about it being a millstone, but it never hurts to have a name that sticks out.
Refusing to grant clemency is a failure of one of the most basic jobs of being governor.
Collective decisions about health care and education are best answered on a local level.
I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.
Corruption requires looking into someone's soul and making judgments about their intent.
We fought a revolution to free ourselves from arbitrary power and the whims of a monarch.
A government should not become too big to fulfill one of its most basic functions: representation.
Voters have a responsibility to make a judgment with whatever facts are available on Election Day.
My family lives in Vermont. I'm a law professor and I spend summers researching and writing in Vermont.
There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.
You may think of Google as a single organic entity, but in 2011 it bought a different company every week.
Quid pro quo has an interesting history. It's originally a contract law term, not a criminal bribery term.
People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.
Facebook and Google are essentially an advertising duopoly, and we have almost no idea how their algorithms work.
Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.
Women's voices need to be in politics, and shaping politics from the very beginning, not serve as an afterthought.
In my view, we need to break up Facebook from Instagram and the other potential competitors that Facebook bought up.
Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption.
It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.
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.
What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.
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 care about dental care, and ending mass private and public surveillance, and funding schools so they can have small class sizes.
President Trump is taking foreign money through his businesses, which is in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.
This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.
We need to pressure lawmakers to hold hearings on pending mergers, and pressure federal and state enforcers to use their full powers.
People traverse the dangerous journey to the US because of deep fear. They are often escaping brutality, even life-or-death situations.
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.
I see the job of attorney general as the single most important legal office in the country when you can't trust the federal government.
When elections are not democratic, even the most populist discussions become superficial, disconnected from real power; they are theatre.
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.
My first job out of law school was representing people on death row in North Carolina, where I often saw the impact of hasty prosecutions.