Jennifer Pahlka

As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet.

Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.

In high school, I was sort of friends with the geeks and friends with the socials and everything else and not solidly in one camp. I've always lived on the borders.

If you are really interested in making government work, you should have the experience of working in government.

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.