100 Quotes by Zephyr Teachout

Facebook is a known behemoth corporate monopoly. It has exposed at least 87 million people's data, enabled foreign propaganda and perpetuated discrimination. We shouldn't be begging for Facebook's endorsement of laws, or for Mark Zuckerberg's promises of self-regulation.

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

When elections are not democratic, even the most populist discussions become superficial, disconnected from real power; they are theatre.

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

I mean this is a revolution in how campaigns work - more money was spent by super PACs than by either myself or John Faso. So what that means is that if you're a voter in this district you are more likely to have heard from a super PAC than from me or my opponent.

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

Congress is corrupt, gridlocked, broken, dysfunctional. It's not working and we need it working again. It's not going to get fixed by people who are deeply, in one way or another, inside this really broken system.

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

We need to pressure lawmakers to hold hearings on pending mergers, and pressure federal and state enforcers to use their full powers.