Zephyr Teachout

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

— Zephyr Teachout

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

— Zephyr Teachout

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

— Zephyr Teachout

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

— Zephyr Teachout

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

— Zephyr Teachout

I think a lot of the reason people are attracted to the Keystone pipeline is because at least we're doing something. There's…

— Zephyr Teachout

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…

— Zephyr Teachout

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

— Zephyr Teachout

If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History…

— Zephyr Teachout

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

— Zephyr Teachout

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

At a policy level, we can support protecting and serving as opposed to militarization or disproportionate response. Step one is making sure…

— Zephyr Teachout

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

— Zephyr Teachout

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

— Zephyr Teachout

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

— Zephyr Teachout

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

— Zephyr Teachout

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

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

— Zephyr Teachout

We need to pressure lawmakers to hold hearings on pending mergers, and pressure federal and state enforcers to use their full powers.

— Zephyr Teachout

I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.

— Zephyr Teachout

My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.

— Zephyr Teachout

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access…

— Zephyr Teachout

We, as lawyers, must point out that unrestrained power is almost always abusive.

— Zephyr Teachout

What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.

— Zephyr Teachout

Women's voices need to be in politics, and shaping politics from the very beginning, not serve as an afterthought.

— Zephyr Teachout