The key to fixing public financing is to free politics from big money. — 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 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 Copy Share Image
A government should not become too big to fulfill one of its most basic functions: representation. — 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
To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line. — 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… — 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… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared… — Zephyr Teachout 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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
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
Talking to Republicans who aren't leaders - that's not very difficult both on anti-trust and on campaign finance reform. I think it's… — 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
A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable… — 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 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
The federal government has shown little willingness to stand up to corporate monopolies, and use its powers under the existing antitrust statutes,… — Zephyr Teachout 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 Copy Share Image
Wealthy individuals have always had the capacity to influence politics, of course, but only after two key campaign finance cases - Wisconsin… — Zephyr Teachout 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 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
Women are routinely demeaned, dismissed, discouraged and assaulted. Too many women's careers are stymied or ended because of harassment and abuse. In… — Zephyr Teachout 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 Copy Share Image
There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical. — 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 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
The core of my platform is to change the role of money in politics, support public education and break up monopoly power.… — Zephyr Teachout 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 Copy Share Image
A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access… — 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
There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
One of the more important things the Bernie Sanders campaign did is reach people who are political but not electorally political. They're… — 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
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