A government should not become too big to fulfill one of its most basic functions: representation. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
We need to pressure lawmakers to hold hearings on pending mergers, and pressure federal and state enforcers to use their full powers. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that. — Zephyr Teachout Company Copy Share Image
Facebook and Google are essentially an advertising duopoly, and we have almost no idea how their algorithms work. — Zephyr Teachout Advertising Copy Share Image
So the job of building structures, building a constitutional structure, is not just to punish those who behave badly but actually to… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Mom and pop shops paying taxes while Amazon got billions just to come to town didn't seem right, and, post-FoxxConn, people are… — Zephyr Teachout Mom Copy Share Image
The Internet is an important organizing tool. But the goal of a campaign isn't to use the Internet for organizing; the goal… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
New York has really thrived both upstate and downstate when there are tens of thousands of small businesses all representing their different… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
One of the things that is so important, critical I think, in reading not just the founders but thousands of years as… — Zephyr Teachout Corruption Copy Share Image
Until the 1980s, candidates spent a fraction of their time talking to donors; just a few weeks a year, a little more… — Zephyr Teachout Donors Copy Share Image
If we don't have a responsive democracy, all the debates about charter schools, and fracking, and high-stakes testing, and the militarization of… — Zephyr Teachout Care Copy Share Image
When I was in college in the late 80s-early 90s, there was a sense that history was on a straight path toward… — Zephyr Teachout Democracy Copy Share Image
As attorney general, I would work with my colleagues in other states to launch a major antitrust investigation to look into the… — Zephyr Teachout Antitrust Copy Share Image
There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They… — Zephyr Teachout Access Copy Share Image
A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable… — Zephyr Teachout Actors Copy Share Image
As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local… — Zephyr Teachout Board members Copy Share Image
Quid pro quo has an interesting history. It's originally a contract law term, not a criminal bribery term. — Zephyr Teachout Bribery Copy Share Image
Political corruption is eating our democracy out from the inside. Most Americans know that. But democratic and economic health can't be easily… — Zephyr Teachout Corruption Copy Share Image
If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History… — Zephyr Teachout Democracy Copy Share Image
People traverse the dangerous journey to the US because of deep fear. They are often escaping brutality, even life-or-death situations. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and… — 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 Change Copy Share Image
When elections are not democratic, even the most populist discussions become superficial, disconnected from real power; they are theatre. — Zephyr Teachout Democracy 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 Bribery Copy Share Image
There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it… — Zephyr Teachout American tradition Copy Share Image
The public should have access to unfettered communication and commerce, and the Internet is increasingly the medium where that takes place. — Zephyr Teachout Business Copy Share Image
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… — Zephyr Teachout Art Copy Share Image
Most of the corruption in Albany is legal corruption, not illegal bribery. It comes from campaigns being funded by millionaires and corporations. — Zephyr Teachout Being Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
And increasingly, as people live online, we are used to making really snap judgments about somebody's character based on their Facebook page… — Zephyr Teachout Character Copy Share Image
There's this myth out there that self-perpetuates that candidates believe that although the populace cares about corruption, they're not going to vote… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
You may think of Google as a single organic entity, but in 2011 it bought a different company every week. — Zephyr Teachout Business Copy Share Image
I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political… — Zephyr Teachout Discourse Copy Share Image
My family lives in Vermont. I'm a law professor and I spend summers researching and writing in Vermont. — Zephyr Teachout Family Copy Share Image
In some states, the attorney general is appointed, but in New York state it's an independently elected position. The New York attorney… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
I'm an FDR Democrat, and I really believe that the most important thing is the institutions of political parties, and engaging in… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Politicians are expected to spend half their time talking to funders and to keep them happy. Given this context, it's not hard… — Zephyr Teachout Argument 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 Army Copy Share Image
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