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About Zephyr Teachout
American attorney, author, political candidate, and professor
Zephyr Rain Teachout is an American attorney, author, political candidate, and professor at Fordham University. She specializes in democracy law and antitrust law. Her work and public life connect legal scholarship with political engagement. At Fordham, she focuses on the rules and structures that shape democratic government, while her writing and campaigns have brought those ideas into the public arena.
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- “The corruption that hides in plain sight is the real threat to our democracy.”Zephyr Teachout
Corruption: more sayings
- “This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and final…”Josiah Warren
- “Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.”Richard Peck
- “In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.”Claire Denis
Roots: more sayings
- “As he rose to his feet he noticed that he was neither dripping nor panting for breath as anyone would expect…”C.S. Lewis
- “This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundre…”Robert Fortune
- “Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communi…”Paul Theroux
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Books by Zephyr Teachout
Corruption in America
2014