President Trump is taking foreign money through his businesses, which is in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
The key to fixing public financing is to free politics from big money. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Dependence on private money to run campaigns causes pain to Republicans and Democrats alike - and business owners. It's time we did… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
So paid media is when you buy an ad - typically in a presidential campaign that will be in Iowa, New Hampshire,… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
It's said that history inevitably marches toward democracy, but it only leaves the possibility of democracy, and the constant threat that it… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
You build massive databases, you learn everything you can about the people in those databases, you figure out exactly how they can… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
After Citizens United, unlimited money could go directly to a corporate entity that can tell people who to vote for, with names… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
If the publicly passed campaign finance laws had not been struck down by the Supreme Court, Club for Growth Action would be… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Wealthy individuals have always had the capacity to influence politics, of course, but only after two key campaign finance cases - Wisconsin… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Talking to Republicans who aren't leaders - that's not very difficult both on anti-trust and on campaign finance reform. I think it's… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Every district is going to be different, but if you wanted me to give advice to those candidates: Run your own campaign,… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
The core of my platform is to change the role of money in politics, support public education and break up monopoly power.… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
The structure of private campaign finance has essentially pre-corrupted our politicians, so that they can't even recognize explicit bribery because it feels… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
I mean this is a revolution in how campaigns work - more money was spent by super PACs than by either myself… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Amazon's outsized power is looking less and less like smart business and more and more like oppressive politics - one company bullying us all. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share
I think part of the reason the Tea Party has resonated is that people feel disempowered. The Tea Party says, "You are out of… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share
Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity,… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share
I think a lot of the reason people are attracted to the Keystone pipeline is because at least we're doing something. There's a fear… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share
If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive,… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share
A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable in front… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share
If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share
Normally, politicians lie because they want to persuade us of the truth of what they are saying. A candidate for Congress will claim that… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share
The Internet is an important organizing tool. But the goal of a campaign isn't to use the Internet for organizing; the goal is always… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share
At a policy level, we can support protecting and serving as opposed to militarization or disproportionate response. Step one is making sure we don't… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share
So the job of building structures, building a constitutional structure, is not just to punish those who behave badly but actually to protect people… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share
I joke about it being a millstone, but it never hurts to have a name that sticks out. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share
