Zephyr Teachout Quotes

Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach.

Today, it is clear that Internet organizing is vital to our future success.

The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.

Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.

Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

The Egyptian Revolution makes it clear, if anybody was in doubt, that digital technologies are going to play a powerful role in the future of global politics.

In many ways, Obama is America's first truly digital president. His 2008 campaign relied heavily on social media to lift him out of obscurity.

Sometimes it's more important to change politicians than light bulbs.

In an election year the state of the nation is the state of politics.

You've got to have a theme if you're going to get Congress to do something difficult.

Saying one is adopting one's policies to changing circumstances is a nice way of saying "I lied.

It is time to put policy ahead of politics and success ahead of the status quo.

Changing social policy is just dogged hard work.

Whenever they tell you there's no change in policy, that's the surest sign that something's up.

One man’s democratization is another man’s destabilization.

We’re in the Internet age, and so domestic politics is no longer domestic, really, It’s international. I don’t think that has quite hit our politicians.

The Constitution will be reformed in accordance with our revolution.

I’m going to take Tennessee ideas to Washington and make them work for the country.

Politics is history in the present tense

The commonest error in politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies.

The time has come for political campaigning, its techniques and strategies, to move out of the dark ages and into the brave new world of the omnipresent eye,

Social media amplifies the loudest voices.

You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.

In politics, reform never comes before crisis.

Back during the campaign, there were a lot of questions: Is Trump really a conservative? A lot of questions about it.