100 Quotes by Zephyr Teachout

I represented a man on death row whose lawyers had spent all of eight hours looking into his claim of innocence. I met men whose lawyers had never looked into their backgrounds.

I see the job of attorney general as the single most important legal office in the country when you can't trust the federal government.

I think a lot of campaigns mis-learned the lessons of Obama 2008. They overly focused on the particular tools, and less so on the fact that the Internet enables a kind of culture of trust to be translated into real power.

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

I hope that we increasingly shift power to local governments.

The key to fixing public financing is to free politics from big money.

Wealthy individuals have always had the capacity to influence politics, of course, but only after two key campaign finance cases - Wisconsin Right to Life and and Citizens United, have they been able to do it in such a large and blatant way.

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

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