Zephyr Teachout Quotes - Page 2

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• You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the number of laws? Number of employees? You could make arguments for either one. I tend to think the axis of the size of government is the wrong concern. But I do think that situating power more locally is a legitimate approach.

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  Mean, Thinking, Government

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• What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.

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  Law, Political, Roles

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• People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"

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  Fun, Character, Thinking

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• 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. People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?".

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  Fun, Character, Thinking

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• Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them, they tend to pay pretty intense attention to what's happening.

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  People, Attention, Stories

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• It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.

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  Dream, Wind, Energy

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• What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.

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  New York, Way, Significant

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• Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.

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  Country, New York, Important

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• A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable in front of a crowd. I felt like I was calling on all those other experiences.

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  Teaching, Calling, Actors

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

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  People, Creative, Artistic

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• There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They mistakenly think they want to get rid of government when instead they might just want to have greater access to power.

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  Thinking, Government, Want

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• I think part of the reason the Tea Party has resonated is that people feel disempowered. The Tea Party says, "You are out of power because of big government." Then some Democrats tend to respond by saying, "No, you're wrong, you're not out of power." It's a sense that doesn't resonate with people's lived experience.

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  Party, Thinking, Government

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• 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.

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  Art, Thinking, Forums

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• I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.

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  Thinking, People, Creative

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• I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.

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  Book, Writing, Easy

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