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Corruption requires looking into someone's soul and making judgments about their intent.
Zephyr Teachout
And my whole life I've been focused on questions of anti-corruption laws, on constitutional law, and it's essential that the power of this office be maximized to stop corruption at the national level.
Zephyr Teachout
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.
Zephyr Teachout
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 an add-on policy. It's something that affects everybody's life.
Zephyr Teachout
People traverse the dangerous journey to the US because of deep fear. They are often escaping brutality, even life-or-death situations.
Zephyr Teachout
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.
Zephyr Teachout
The attorney general of New York state has a special authority and responsibility to preserve the integrity of businesses and nonprofits in New York under the state's own laws as well as under the U.S. Constitution.
Zephyr Teachout
President Trump is taking foreign money through his businesses, which is in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.
Zephyr Teachout
So one of the things I want to focus on is how we can show how taking on private financing is taking on this fundamental democratic threat.
Zephyr Teachout
You may think of Google as a single organic entity, but in 2011 it bought a different company every week.
Zephyr Teachout