Best quotes by Zephyr Teachout on Corruption
Checkout quotes by Zephyr Teachout on Corruption
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‟ Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption.
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‟ Most of the corruption in Albany is legal corruption, not illegal bribery. It comes from campaigns being funded by millionaires and corporations.
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‟ There's this myth out there that self-perpetuates that candidates believe that although the populace cares about corruption, they're not going to vote on it.
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‟ And my whole life I've been focused on questions of anti-corruption laws, on constitutional law, and it's essential that the power of this office be maximized to stop corruption at the national level.
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‟ 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.
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‟ Corruption requires looking into someone's soul and making judgments about their intent.
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‟ One of the things that is so important, critical I think, in reading not just the founders but thousands of years as you put it, that discussion about corruption, is that you can't talk about the problem of corruption without talking about human nature.
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