Jon Stewart

But it was... I was young then, and I didn't mind it, but when I got a family, it was very different.

And the city that I embraced for its chaos as a younger man, I don't think I would have as an older person.

Does that...

Does that quality of life issue, because that's not just Manhattan, that's everywhere.

And I think it's a frustration of mine that we've allowed the words quality of life to become seen as if they're bywords for the Republican Party.

They should be at the heart of any progressive politics.

If you care about working people, you have to deliver an excellent quality of life for those people.

Man, oh man, is that, and I gotta tell you, it always freaks me out when progressives don't push for

people in communities that have less money deserve the same security and quality of life that people in on fifth avenue deserve and i think we've forgotten that and i and i think it's you just think about the incentives in city government right now right you have a trash can in new york city that's overflowing city government's response is often remove the trash can not increase trash collection of the trash can really this is now i didn't know we had trash cans that weren't overflowing i thought

I thought that New York City bought them filled.

Yeah, just permanently at the top.

I assumed it was just some sort of illusion.

You buy a house for your cat, that's just for the rats to have somewhere to climb.

But I think this is, in a city where we're saying we don't have enough money to take care of those who have the least, we have enough money to pay McKinsey to design that trash can.

That's the city we're living in.

It's not about money, it's about will.

And what I love hearing about this is one of the things that's been so frustrating in our politics is so much of it has been defined over these last 10 years as the negative case against someone.

And finally, and I think this is not blowing smoke, I think you've made an affirmative case for people.

I think the enthusiasm that they have for you is because you've made an affirmative case that's not about protecting something that's going to be lost or a bad man that's over there.

It's about an idea that you have