Zephyr Teachout Quotes

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Zephyr Teachout

Profession : Lawyer

Birth : October 24, 1971

Collective decisions about health care and education are best answered on a local level.

Zephyr Teachout

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

Zephyr Teachout

The science doesn't prove Common Core's effective. So I guess what I mean is science is an essential part of any decision-making process, and so is public involvement. And in the long-term, you lose legitimacy and power if you don't directly engage with the public.

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I hope the true public servants learn from this that they should not be afraid and they will get incredible grass-roots support if they call out corruption.

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Every politician should go and spend time and visit prisons and jails. Because if you are choosing to exercise this kind of power over another person's life, there's a role for that, but you have to know the kind of power you are exercising.

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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 militarize and actually call for a review of military equipment in New York police forces.

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Creating systems where people feel like they're being punished for things they didn't do wrong breaks all kinds of trust and makes people feel like they're not being treated with dignity.

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Refusing to grant clemency is a failure of one of the most basic jobs of being governor.

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One of the things I care about a lot is public financing in elections.

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It is an honor to join 'The Nation's esteemed editorial board.

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

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Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption.

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It's always a fun game to go back and guess what long-past people would think.

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Every constitutional standard is engaged in difficult but important line-drawing.

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

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As attorney general, I would work with my colleagues in other states to launch a major antitrust investigation to look into the ways in which Facebook and Google are wielding and may be abusing their duopoly powers.

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The work of being a citizen is hard and annoying, but it can pay off.

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I am not Pollyannaish about the depths of the challenges we face.

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Facebook and Google are essentially an advertising duopoly, and we have almost no idea how their algorithms work.

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The corruption that hides in plain sight is the real threat to our democracy.

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