My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Congress is corrupt, gridlocked, broken, dysfunctional. It's not working and we need it working again. It's not going to get fixed by… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
The way we fund campaigns is a feminist issue and a race issue. If you want more representation, you can't say it's… — 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
I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
And increasingly, as people live online, we are used to making really snap judgments about somebody's character based on their Facebook page… — 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
As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local… — 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