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People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.
Zephyr Teachout
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Zephyr Teachout
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 24
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I don't have any particular plans in mind. What I see is that you can become so focused on the idea of running that winning becomes your motivation, as opposed to what you stand for being your motivation.
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I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.
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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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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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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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Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.
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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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What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.
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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.
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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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