Education Quotes by Zephyr Teachout

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

— Zephyr Teachout

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

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

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

— Zephyr Teachout

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Zephyr Teachout

I joke about it being a millstone, but it never hurts to have a name that sticks out.

— Zephyr Teachout