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
We, as lawyers, must point out that unrestrained power is almost always abusive. — 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
The science doesn't prove Common Core's effective. So I guess what I mean is science is an essential part of any decision-making… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
New York state's Donnelly Act gives power at least as great - many think greater - than that of the Sherman Act.… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Amazon's capitulation to those opposed to their expansion in New York City is an epic moment for people power over an enormous… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
We fought a revolution to free ourselves from arbitrary power and the whims of a monarch. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around. — 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
A lot of organizations have pointed out that under public financing systems, you see a lot more candidates of color and a… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
When elections are not democratic, even the most populist discussions become superficial, disconnected from real power; they are theatre. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
I think a lot of campaigns mis-learned the lessons of Obama 2008. They overly focused on the particular tools, and less so… — 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
Google has established a pattern of lobbying and threatening to acquire power. It has reached a dangerous point common to many monarchs:… — 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
