"It's not that populism has just risen from nowhere. It has risen because of the failure of the established political process. And if you want to get back to how things were — I'm not sure it's possible to get back to that, we will see over the next few years — we need to have better answers than before."
"I constantly think about what I am doing in my role to improve the lives of working people in this country. I think I've been blessed to work at some of the highest levels of government and politics, and with that comes a responsibility to use that expertise to help others."
“We need a Sanders presidency for the opportunity to use the levers of power that are available to us to actually build a movement big enough to transform the world. And eventually to transform our economic system from one that not only permits but actually functions on exploitation, to one that instead functions on a basis of equality, democracy at work, and solidarity.”
"The value of analytics is your ability to communicate directly with people. I think the reason why you’ve seen turnout increase so much over the last few election cycles is that voting analytics allows people to talk about issues that they specifically care about and not issues that only 10 percent of swing voters care about."
“[The] founders of The Atlantic — Emerson and Thoreau and Longfellow and Harriet Beecher Stowe — would be tweeting, would have podcasts, would be on Facebook. They would use the modern tools to tell their stories, just like they used print back in the 19th century.”
"I think that we are making some progress, but we have to remember that it took us literal centuries to get in the position that we're in now. And so it's going to take us intentional, longterm, strategic, disciplined work to get to the place we want."
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