Quotes from Zephyr Teachout

In some states, the attorney general is appointed, but in New York state it's an independently elected position. The New York attorney general has an obligation to the people first, to her conscience and to the rule of law, not to the governor, and not to the legislature.

After Citizens United, unlimited money could go directly to a corporate entity that can tell people who to vote for, with names and polling places included.

At their best, new media are chaotic. The new technologies disrupt political pomp and glamour and engage people in an unpolished and unpredictable give-and-take. They also give citizens access to a surprising depth of raw information.

I joke about it being a millstone, but it never hurts to have a name that sticks out.

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

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.

When I was in college in the late 80s-early 90s, there was a sense that history was on a straight path toward democracy everywhere. Well, that's not true. It was also not true that there's a single era of oligarchy, because we showed we could do something about it.

Amazon's outsized power is looking less and less like smart business and more and more like oppressive politics - one company bullying us all.

You may think of Google as a single organic entity, but in 2011 it bought a different company every week.

If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing.

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

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's easier just to perform.

I have always wanted to run for Attorney General, and I always wanted to have a baby, but I did not think I would be doing them at the same time.

President Trump is taking foreign money through his businesses, which is in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.

There is so much we don't know about Facebook. We know we have a corporate monopoly that has repeated serious violations that are threatening our democracy.

You build massive databases, you learn everything you can about the people in those databases, you figure out exactly how they can be useful to your campaign, and you ask them to donate money, door-knock, the virtual equivalent of being a sort of army of stamp lickers.

We, as lawyers, must point out that unrestrained power is almost always abusive.