Quotes from Zephyr Teachout

I propose a full day of live one-on-one debates on unannounced issues, with no aides to help or reply. Each candidate would be paired with another candidate for seven 60-minute sessions.

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

The way we fund campaigns is a feminist issue and a race issue. If you want more representation, you can't say it's going to be really expensive to run for office and you need a rolodex of billionaires.

My first job out of law school was representing people on death row in North Carolina, where I often saw the impact of hasty prosecutions.

I hope that we increasingly shift power to local governments.

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.

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.

In my view, we need to break up Facebook from Instagram and the other potential competitors that Facebook bought up.

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.

We need to ban outside income for elected officials. Transparency alone is not enough; it doesn't solve the problem of creating outside dependencies.

This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.

The science doesn't prove Common Core's effective. So I guess what I mean is science is an essential part of any decision-making process, and so is public involvement. And in the long-term, you lose legitimacy and power if you don't directly engage with the public.

It is an honor to join 'The Nation's esteemed editorial board.

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.

People traverse the dangerous journey to the US because of deep fear. They are often escaping brutality, even life-or-death situations.

And increasingly, as people live online, we are used to making really snap judgments about somebody's character based on their Facebook page or the way their blog feels or look.

Corruption requires looking into someone's soul and making judgments about their intent.

Most of the corruption in Albany is legal corruption, not illegal bribery. It comes from campaigns being funded by millionaires and corporations.

It is time to call out Google for what it is: a monopolist in search, video, maps and browser, and a thin-skinned tyrant when it comes to ideas.

The public should have access to unfettered communication and commerce, and the Internet is increasingly the medium where that takes place.

Every constitutional standard is engaged in difficult but important line-drawing.

Amazon's capitulation to those opposed to their expansion in New York City is an epic moment for people power over an enormous corporate bully.

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

Dependence on private money to run campaigns causes pain to Republicans and Democrats alike - and business owners. It's time we did something about it. And public financing of elections should be the first step.