Government Quotes by Zephyr Teachout

8 Government quotes by Zephyr Teachout

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Zephyr Teachout’s eight remarks on government highlight her reformist agenda in a succinct collection. This short selection provides a quick entry into her political advocacy.

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I think part of the reason the Tea Party has resonated is that people feel disempowered. The Tea Party says, "You are…

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The federal government has shown little willingness to stand up to corporate monopolies, and use its powers under the existing antitrust statutes,…

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

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A government should not become too big to fulfill one of its most basic functions: representation.

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I see the job of attorney general as the single most important legal office in the country when you can't trust the…

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There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They…

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Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most…

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There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it…

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

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

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I think part of the reason the Tea Party has resonated is that people feel disempowered. The Tea Party says, "You are out of…

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

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Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity,…

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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…

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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,…

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A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable in front…

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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…

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

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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…

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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…

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So the job of building structures, building a constitutional structure, is not just to punish those who behave badly but actually to protect people…

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

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

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