Zephyr Teachout

We fought a revolution to free ourselves from arbitrary power and the whims of a monarch.

— Zephyr Teachout

I hope that we increasingly shift power to local governments.

— Zephyr Teachout

Anti-corruption is a core constitutional value. It always has been.

— Zephyr Teachout

I am not Pollyannaish about the depths of the challenges we face.

— Zephyr Teachout

My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.

— Zephyr Teachout

Corruption requires looking into someone's soul and making judgments about their intent.

— Zephyr Teachout

The corruption that hides in plain sight is the real threat to our democracy.

— Zephyr Teachout

Collective decisions about health care and education are best answered on a local level.

— Zephyr Teachout

I hope the true public servants learn from this that they should not be afraid and they will get incredible grass-roots support…

— Zephyr Teachout

Amazon's outsized power is looking less and less like smart business and more and more like oppressive politics - one company bullying…

— Zephyr Teachout

Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.

— Zephyr Teachout

Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to…

— Zephyr Teachout

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access…

— Zephyr Teachout

I have always wanted to run for Attorney General, and I always wanted to have a baby, but I did not think…

— Zephyr Teachout

Creating systems where people feel like they're being punished for things they didn't do wrong breaks all kinds of trust and makes…

— Zephyr Teachout

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared…

— Zephyr Teachout

Facebook is a known behemoth corporate monopoly. It has exposed at least 87 million people's data, enabled foreign propaganda and perpetuated discrimination.…

— Zephyr Teachout

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access…

— Zephyr Teachout

Dependence on private money to run campaigns causes pain to Republicans and Democrats alike - and business owners. It's time we did…

— Zephyr Teachout

I don't have any particular plans in mind. What I see is that you can become so focused on the idea of…

— Zephyr Teachout

An intuitive part of the American ethos is a kind of protectiveness of the public's fear. We have to remember how unique…

— Zephyr Teachout

Normally, politicians lie because they want to persuade us of the truth of what they are saying. A candidate for Congress will…

— Zephyr Teachout

In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist…

— Zephyr Teachout

You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the…

— Zephyr Teachout

I'm going to Congress to break down the doors of power.

— Zephyr Teachout

It's always a fun game to go back and guess what long-past people would think.

— Zephyr Teachout

The key to fixing public financing is to free politics from big money.

— Zephyr Teachout

We, as lawyers, must point out that unrestrained power is almost always abusive.

— Zephyr Teachout

I don't think we should reduce the corporate tax rate.

— Zephyr Teachout

Parties are fun, but they don't create community.

— Zephyr Teachout

One of the things I care about a lot is public financing in elections.

— Zephyr Teachout

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

— Zephyr Teachout

I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.

— Zephyr Teachout

What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.

— Zephyr Teachout

Refusing to grant clemency is a failure of one of the most basic jobs of being governor.

— Zephyr Teachout

You can't just provide power, you also need public education.

— Zephyr Teachout

To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line.

— Zephyr Teachout

I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.

— Zephyr Teachout

The work of being a citizen is hard and annoying, but it can pay off.

— Zephyr Teachout

I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.

— Zephyr Teachout