Quotes by Lawyers

Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most central debates in the last 40 years in law, what is corruption. Zephyr Teachout

Selfish Corruption People Law Most Private Years Debates Office Ends Central Public Use Public Office Last

Creating systems where people feel like they're being punished for things they didn't do wrong breaks all kinds of trust and makes people feel like they're not being treated with dignity. Zephyr Teachout

Trust Dignity People Punished Systems Kinds Wrong Feel Like Makes Being Where Breaks Creating Things Treated

The tools Facebook provides make discrimination easy. Facebook has monopoly profit margins, so it could easily provide real staffing to protect against discrimination, if it wanted to. It doesn’t want to. Zephyr Teachout

Facebook Profit Monopoly Tools Easily Easy Could Protect Make Real Provide Provides Discrimination Staffing Want Wanted Against Margins

Voters have a responsibility to make a judgment with whatever facts are available on Election Day. Zephyr Teachout

Day Election Responsibility Judgment Whatever Facts Voters Make Available Election Day

It’s always a fun game to go back and guess what long-past people would think. Zephyr Teachout

Game People Think Guess Back Would Always Go Fun

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

Soul Corruption Looking About Someone Judgments Making Intent Requires

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

Pressure State Lawmakers Federal Mergers Powers Hold Use Full Need

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

Work Politics Money Directly Never Fair Line Straight Straight Line

I hope that we increasingly shift power to local governments. Zephyr Teachout

Hope Power Increasingly Local Local Governments I Hope That Shift Governments

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. Zephyr Teachout

Vote People Money Corporate Unlimited Tell Citizens Directly Entity Could Names Go Polling After Places Who Included United

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

Family Writing Law Spend Summers Vermont Researching Lives Professor