Sun Tzu Politics, War
Winston Churchill Politics, War
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents - a depressingly low level, but what else can you expect? Robert A. Heinlein
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents - a depressingly low level, but what else can you expect?
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost. Robert A. Heinlein
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.
We need a 21st Century Rural Electrification Act: competitive broadband to every farm and home! Zephyr Teachout
We need a 21st Century Rural Electrification Act: competitive broadband to every farm and home!
History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made. Zephyr Teachout
History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.
Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first. Zephyr Teachout
Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.
There are two questions that often get conflated. One is the size of government and the other is the location of power within government. You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Zephyr Teachout
There are two questions that often get conflated. One is the size of government and the other is the location of power within government. You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government.
I’m teaching a class called “Market Structure and Democracy.” It’s designed to investigate the relationship between political power and economic power. Zephyr Teachout
I’m teaching a class called “Market Structure and Democracy.” It’s designed to investigate the relationship between political power and economic power.
I tend to focus on fixing systems, which is what I’ve been working on recently. Besides wanting to be governor, the two big systems I’ve been focusing on are campaign financing and our market structure. Zephyr Teachout
I tend to focus on fixing systems, which is what I’ve been working on recently. Besides wanting to be governor, the two big systems I’ve been focusing on are campaign financing and our market structure.
There is a rising economic populist tide in America, and Elizabeth Warren is the personification of that movement. Zephyr Teachout
There is a rising economic populist tide in America, and Elizabeth Warren is the personification of that movement.
A lot of politics plays at the level of myth... Zephyr Teachout
A lot of politics plays at the level of myth...
If we want more women to run for office, we need to change the way we fund campaigns. Big-money financed elections doesn't serve women. Zephyr Teachout
If we want more women to run for office, we need to change the way we fund campaigns. Big-money financed elections doesn't serve women.
I shall look with confidence to the enlightened patriotism of that body to adopt such measures of conciliation as may harmonize conflicting interests and tend to perpetuate that Union which should be the paramount object of our hopes and affections. Zachary Taylor
I shall look with confidence to the enlightened patriotism of that body to adopt such measures of conciliation as may harmonize conflicting interests and tend to perpetuate that Union which should be the paramount object of our hopes and affections.