If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.

- Zephyr Teachout

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

- Zephyr Teachout

Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.

- Zephyr Teachout

Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.

- Zephyr Teachout

One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politic…

- Zephyr Teachout

Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it…

- Zephyr Teachout

Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.

- Zephyr Teachout

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democ…

- Zephyr Teachout

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.

- Zephyr Teachout