I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities. — Zephyr Teachout Creative Copy Share Image
What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
One of the things I care about a lot is public financing in elections. — 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
We need to ban outside income for elected officials. Transparency alone is not enough; it doesn't solve the problem of creating outside… — Zephyr Teachout Alone Copy Share Image
President Trump is taking foreign money through his businesses, which is in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. — Zephyr Teachout Business 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 Internet Copy Share Image
Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most… — Zephyr Teachout Corruption 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
In my view, we need to break up Facebook from Instagram and the other potential competitors that Facebook bought up. — Zephyr Teachout Facebook Copy Share Image
It is time to call out Google for what it is: a monopolist in search, video, maps and browser, and a thin-skinned… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
One of the things that is so important, critical I think, in reading not just the founders but thousands of years as… — Zephyr Teachout Corruption Copy Share Image
Until the 1980s, candidates spent a fraction of their time talking to donors; just a few weeks a year, a little more… — Zephyr Teachout Donors 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
In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist… — Zephyr Teachout Abolitionist 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 Consumer protection 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 Approach 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
A real economic development policy would address the root issues hampering business growth, like access to credit and marketplaces so dominated by… — Zephyr Teachout Business Copy Share Image
New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the… — Zephyr Teachout Change Copy Share Image
My first job out of law school was representing people on death row in North Carolina, where I often saw the impact… — Zephyr Teachout Death 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 City Copy Share Image
I propose a full day of live one-on-one debates on unannounced issues, with no aides to help or reply. Each candidate would… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
I hope the true public servants learn from this that they should not be afraid and they will get incredible grass-roots support… — Zephyr Teachout Corruption Copy Share Image
Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote. — Zephyr Teachout Artistic 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 Business 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 Access Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to run for Attorney General, and I always wanted to have a baby, but I did not think… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Creating systems where people feel like they're being punished for things they didn't do wrong breaks all kinds of trust and makes… — Zephyr Teachout Being 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 Book Copy Share Image
Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Most of the corruption in Albany is legal corruption, not illegal bribery. It comes from campaigns being funded by millionaires and corporations. — Zephyr Teachout Being 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
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 Character Copy Share Image
Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
You may think of Google as a single organic entity, but in 2011 it bought a different company every week. — Zephyr Teachout Business 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 Discourse Copy Share Image
My family lives in Vermont. I'm a law professor and I spend summers researching and writing in Vermont. — Zephyr Teachout Family Copy Share Image
