You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Quid pro quo has an interesting history. It's originally a contract law term, not a criminal bribery term. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
And my whole life I've been focused on questions of anti-corruption laws, on constitutional law, and it's essential that the power of… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
My family lives in Vermont. I'm a law professor and I spend summers researching and writing in Vermont. — Zephyr Teachout 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 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 not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics. — 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 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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Anti-corruption is a core constitutional value. It always has been. — 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 have integrity,… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
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 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 not competitive,… — Zephyr Teachout 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 in front… — Zephyr Teachout 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 is a… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
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 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 is always… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
