Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and… — 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 Change Copy Share Image
When elections are not democratic, even the most populist discussions become superficial, disconnected from real power; they are theatre. — Zephyr Teachout Democracy 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… — Zephyr Teachout Democracy Copy Share Image
People traverse the dangerous journey to the US because of deep fear. They are often escaping brutality, even life-or-death situations. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
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 Bribery Copy Share Image
There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it… — Zephyr Teachout American tradition 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… — Zephyr Teachout Art Copy Share Image
At their best, new media are chaotic. The new technologies disrupt political pomp and glamour and engage people in an unpolished and… — Zephyr Teachout 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 Aries Copy Share Image
Facebook is a known behemoth corporate monopoly. It has exposed at least 87 million people's data, enabled foreign propaganda and perpetuated discrimination.… — Zephyr Teachout Data Copy Share Image
Dependence on private money to run campaigns causes pain to Republicans and Democrats alike - and business owners. It's time we did… — Zephyr Teachout Business Copy Share Image
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 Focused 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… — Zephyr Teachout Honor Copy Share Image
An intuitive part of the American ethos is a kind of protectiveness of the public's fear. We have to remember how unique… — Zephyr Teachout Fear Copy Share Image
Women are routinely demeaned, dismissed, discouraged and assaulted. Too many women's careers are stymied or ended because of harassment and abuse. In… — Zephyr Teachout Abuse Copy Share Image
The public should have access to unfettered communication and commerce, and the Internet is increasingly the medium where that takes place. — Zephyr Teachout Business Copy Share Image
We need to pressure lawmakers to hold hearings on pending mergers, and pressure federal and state enforcers to use their full powers. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that. — Zephyr Teachout Company Copy Share Image
Facebook and Google are essentially an advertising duopoly, and we have almost no idea how their algorithms work. — Zephyr Teachout Advertising Copy Share Image
So the job of building structures, building a constitutional structure, is not just to punish those who behave badly but actually to… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Mom and pop shops paying taxes while Amazon got billions just to come to town didn't seem right, and, post-FoxxConn, people are… — Zephyr Teachout Mom 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… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Quid pro quo has an interesting history. It's originally a contract law term, not a criminal bribery term. — Zephyr Teachout Bribery Copy Share Image
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 Corruption Copy Share Image
New York has really thrived both upstate and downstate when there are tens of thousands of small businesses all representing their different… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Voters have a responsibility to make a judgment with whatever facts are available on Election Day. — Zephyr Teachout Day Copy Share Image
It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
I represented a man on death row whose lawyers had spent all of eight hours looking into his claim of innocence. I… — Zephyr Teachout Death Copy Share Image
People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter. — Zephyr Teachout Lying Copy Share Image
It's said that history inevitably marches toward democracy, but it only leaves the possibility of democracy, and the constant threat that it… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists… — Zephyr Teachout Failure Copy Share Image
Women's voices need to be in politics, and shaping politics from the very beginning, not serve as an afterthought. — Zephyr Teachout Beginning Copy Share Image
After Citizens United, unlimited money could go directly to a corporate entity that can tell people who to vote for, with names… — Zephyr Teachout Citizens united Copy Share Image
Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also… — Zephyr Teachout Country Copy Share Image
A government should not become too big to fulfill one of its most basic functions: representation. — 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 Campaigns 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… — Zephyr Teachout Acting Copy Share Image
The tools Facebook provides make discrimination easy. Facebook has monopoly profit margins, so it could easily provide real staffing to protect against… — Zephyr Teachout Discrimination 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… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
