I joke about it being a millstone, but it never hurts to have a name that sticks out. — Zephyr Teachout Being Copy Share Image
Every constitutional standard is engaged in difficult but important line-drawing. — Zephyr Teachout Constitution Copy Share Image
In my view, we need to break up Facebook from Instagram and the other potential competitors that Facebook bought up. — Zephyr Teachout Facebook Copy Share Image
This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
It is time to call out Google for what it is: a monopolist in search, video, maps and browser, and a thin-skinned… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the… — Zephyr Teachout Change Copy Share Image
My first job out of law school was representing people on death row in North Carolina, where I often saw the impact… — Zephyr Teachout Death Copy Share Image
Amazon's capitulation to those opposed to their expansion in New York City is an epic moment for people power over an enormous… — Zephyr Teachout City Copy Share Image
I propose a full day of live one-on-one debates on unannounced issues, with no aides to help or reply. Each candidate would… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
I care about dental care, and ending mass private and public surveillance, and funding schools so they can have small class sizes. — Zephyr Teachout Care Copy Share Image
New York state's Donnelly Act gives power at least as great - many think greater - than that of the Sherman Act.… — Zephyr Teachout Consumer protection Copy Share Image
Every politician should go and spend time and visit prisons and jails. Because if you are choosing to exercise this kind of… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
At their best, new media are chaotic. The new technologies disrupt political pomp and glamour and engage people in an unpolished and… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
A real economic development policy would address the root issues hampering business growth, like access to credit and marketplaces so dominated by… — Zephyr Teachout Business Copy Share Image
In the absence of relative equality - quid pro quo - a court might question whether there was an actual contract. If… — Zephyr Teachout Absence Copy Share Image
A lot of organizations have pointed out that under public financing systems, you see a lot more candidates of color and a… — 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
Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't… — Zephyr Teachout Creativity Copy Share Image
We need to ban outside income for elected officials. Transparency alone is not enough; it doesn't solve the problem of creating outside… — Zephyr Teachout Alone Copy Share Image
President Trump is taking foreign money through his businesses, which is in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. — Zephyr Teachout Business Copy Share Image
There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
It's one of those secrets that not a lot of politicians realize: The Internet is not a 10th-tier policy issue. It's not… — Zephyr Teachout Internet Copy Share Image
Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most… — Zephyr Teachout Corruption Copy Share Image
Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them,… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Google has established a pattern of lobbying and threatening to acquire power. It has reached a dangerous point common to many monarchs:… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
I see the job of attorney general as the single most important legal office in the country when you can't trust the… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is… — Zephyr Teachout Aries Copy Share Image
So one of the things I want to focus on is how we can show how taking on private financing is taking… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
There is so much we don't know about Facebook. We know we have a corporate monopoly that has repeated serious violations that… — Zephyr Teachout Democracy Copy Share Image
Voters have a responsibility to make a judgment with whatever facts are available on Election Day. — Zephyr Teachout Day Copy Share Image
It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
I represented a man on death row whose lawyers had spent all of eight hours looking into his claim of innocence. I… — Zephyr Teachout Death 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
People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter. — Zephyr Teachout Lying Copy Share Image
History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists… — Zephyr Teachout Failure Copy Share Image
Women's voices need to be in politics, and shaping politics from the very beginning, not serve as an afterthought. — Zephyr Teachout Beginning 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 Citizens united Copy Share Image
Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also… — Zephyr Teachout Country Copy Share Image
