Zephyr Teachout

I don't have any particular plans in mind. What I see is that you can become so focused on the idea of…

— Zephyr Teachout

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

President Trump is taking foreign money through his businesses, which is in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.

— Zephyr Teachout

I have always wanted to run for Attorney General, and I always wanted to have a baby, but I did not think…

— Zephyr Teachout

After Citizens United, unlimited money could go directly to a corporate entity that can tell people who to vote for, with names…

— Zephyr Teachout

When I was in college in the late 80s-early 90s, there was a sense that history was on a straight path toward…

— Zephyr Teachout

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared…

— Zephyr Teachout

I'm going to Congress to break down the doors of power.

— Zephyr Teachout

There's this myth out there that self-perpetuates that candidates believe that although the populace cares about corruption, they're not going to vote…

— Zephyr Teachout

You can't just provide power, you also need public education.

— Zephyr Teachout

You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the…

— Zephyr Teachout

The attorney general of New York state has a special authority and responsibility to preserve the integrity of businesses and nonprofits in…

— Zephyr Teachout

Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't…

— Zephyr Teachout

Quid pro quo has an interesting history. It's originally a contract law term, not a criminal bribery term.

— Zephyr Teachout

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

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

The Internet doesn't just enable cool avatars and the shorter form. It also allows the deeper form: cross-linked blog posts, extensive research,…

— Zephyr Teachout

My family lives in Vermont. I'm a law professor and I spend summers researching and writing in Vermont.

— Zephyr Teachout

I hope that we increasingly shift power to local governments.

— Zephyr Teachout

A government should not become too big to fulfill one of its most basic functions: representation.

— Zephyr Teachout

I represented a man on death row whose lawyers had spent all of eight hours looking into his claim of innocence. I…

— Zephyr Teachout

You may think of Google as a single organic entity, but in 2011 it bought a different company every week.

— Zephyr Teachout

You build massive databases, you learn everything you can about the people in those databases, you figure out exactly how they can…

— Zephyr Teachout

At their best, new media are chaotic. The new technologies disrupt political pomp and glamour and engage people in an unpolished and…

— Zephyr Teachout

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