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Schneiderman Quotes By Eric Schneiderman

Exxon Mobil and JPMorgan Chase each made more in profits in the first quarter of 2012 alone than the entire state budget of Montana. Without a doubt, multinational corporations like these have the resources to overwhelm the voices of the people. — Eric Schneiderman

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Ninety-five percent of the work in the attorney general's office is civil litigation and regulatory work, and I think I certainly have a lot more experience in that than most of the folks who have served in the office. — Eric Schneiderman

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Abandoned homes become magnets for vandalism and crime. They drag down the property values of neighboring homes. — Eric Schneiderman

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Games of chance often involve some amount of skill; this does not make them legal. Good poker players often beat novices. But poker is still gambling, and running a poker room - or online casino - is illegal in New York. — Eric Schneiderman

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Abandoned homes are everyone's problem, afflicting communities all over the state. — Eric Schneiderman

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I'm very interested in the more grass-roots consequences of the economic meltdown: issues related to mortgage foreclosures, debt collection, and the practices of credit card companies and others who hold a lot of consumer debt. — Eric Schneiderman

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Prosecutors are all used to people who commit fraud making wild accusations when they're caught. — Eric Schneiderman

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The secret's out: New York's Labor Law provides the power to help low-wage workers earn enough to meet their basic needs. — Eric Schneiderman

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We're very interested in seeing what science Exxon has been using for its own purposes because they're tremendously active in offshore oil drilling in the Arctic, for example, where global warming is happening at a much more rapid rate than in more temperate zones. — Eric Schneiderman

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I have the highest possible regard for the district attorneys in the State of New York. — Eric Schneiderman

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Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority. — Eric Schneiderman

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That is the definition of equal justice under law: everyone gets a fair shot, everyone pays their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules. — Eric Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Rose Schneiderman

Today, for many people, being a union member simply means paying dues, but in the early days there were so few of us that if a majority of the members were not active, the union ceased to exist. — Rose Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Eric Schneiderman

Unlike most traditional, season-long fantasy sports sites, which make most of their money from administrative fees and advertising, FanDuel and DraftKings take a cut of every bet. That is what bookies do, and it is illegal in New York. — Eric Schneiderman

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As New York's chief law enforcement officer, I have taken a hard line against those in state government who abuse the law they have sworn to uphold. — Eric Schneiderman

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Daily fantasy sports is neither victimless nor harmless, and it is clear that DraftKings and FanDuel are the leaders of a massive, multi-billion-dollar scheme intended to evade the law and fleece sports fans across the country. — Eric Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Rose Schneiderman

We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat. — Rose Schneiderman

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By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that. — Rose Schneiderman

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All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement. — Rose Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Eric Schneiderman

Very few checklist liberals will focus on transformational work if they are rewarded or punished only for their transactional work. — Eric Schneiderman

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The credit reporting system suffers from inaccuracy and often from outright injustice. — Eric Schneiderman

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Right here in New York, people are struggling in working conditions not much safer or fairer than the sweatshops of 1911. — Eric Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Rose Schneiderman

You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. — Rose Schneiderman

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The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports. — Eric Schneiderman

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These facts are clear: Trump University was an unlicensed enterprise promising students that they would become wealthy by learning Trump's real estate tips and strategies, taught by his handpicked instructors. — Eric Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Rose Schneiderman

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with. — Rose Schneiderman

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You're not allowed to lure people into spending their money or betting their money based on false representations. — Eric Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Rose Schneiderman

The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death. — Rose Schneiderman

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No woman should have her personal health care decisions dictated by the religious beliefs of her boss. — Eric Schneiderman

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Unions go hand-in-hand with a strong middle class. — Eric Schneiderman

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We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage the highest levels of voter turnout and participation. — Eric Schneiderman

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Transformational politics requires us to challenge the way people think about issues, opening their minds to better possibilities. — Eric Schneiderman

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Organizing gives workers the power to lift themselves out of poverty and build a better future. — Eric Schneiderman

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A staunch abolitionist, Hamilton was one of the founding members of the New York Manumission Society. He was a trustee and namesake of Hamilton-Oneida Academy, an upstate New York school dedicated to educating Native-American boys. — Eric Schneiderman

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The distribution of wealth is not determined by nature. It is determined by policy. — Eric Schneiderman

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More money is being spent on our elections, with less disclosure of where that money is coming from, than ever before. — Eric Schneiderman

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A factory-installed security measure - one that phone owners would have to opt out of, rather than opting in - could automatically render purloined devices inoperable on any network, anywhere in the world. No resale value, no thefts. — Eric Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Rose Schneiderman

After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us. — Rose Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Eric Schneiderman

If the Treasury Department should not remove Hamilton from the $10 bill, what should they do? The answer is fairly simple: Replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. — Eric Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Rose Schneiderman

So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more. — Rose Schneiderman

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Donald Trump is "the kind of person who goes to the Super Bowl and thinks the people in the huddle are talking about him." — Eric Schneiderman

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New Yorkers must be able to trust the men and women of the NYPD. They must come forward to report crimes. And they must come forward as witnesses. — Eric Schneiderman

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Anyone who believes in the essential role government can play in improving people's lives must also be the toughest critics of those who abuse the public trust. — Eric Schneiderman

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In the 1960s, the public demanded seat belts in cars, but automakers balked. Not until government intervened did seat belts become standard equipment. Now, no one would consider buying a vehicle without this basic safety feature. — Eric Schneiderman

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Here in New York, we are already seeing how climate change contributes to increasingly violent and extreme weather that has cost us dearly, in both damage and in lives. — Eric Schneiderman

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Every day, in every city and town across the country, police officers are performing vital services that help make their communities safer. — Eric Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Rose Schneiderman

I read upon the subject and grew more and more interested, and after a time I became a member of the National Board, and had duties and responsibilities that kept me busy after my day's work was done. — Rose Schneiderman

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Obviously, Nevada doesn't prohibit all forms of gambling, but you have to submit yourself to a very rigorous regulatory process to run a gambling operation in Nevada. — Eric Schneiderman

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If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government. — Eric Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Rose Schneiderman

I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days. — Rose Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Eric Schneiderman

When I was in the Senate, I worked to pass Women's Health and Wellness Act, which bars insurance companies from discriminating against the health care needs of women. — Eric Schneiderman

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I don't think it's any secret that the public has lost confidence in the state government, and there's a lot of work that needs to be done on issues related to public integrity. — Eric Schneiderman

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I am not in the entertainment business; I am in the justice business. — Eric Schneiderman

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Our investigation has found that, unlike traditional fantasy sports, daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling and misleading New York consumers. — Eric Schneiderman

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The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights. — Eric Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Rose Schneiderman

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift. — Rose Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Rose Schneiderman

But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us. — Rose Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Eric Schneiderman

I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency: that people have to really not just know but understand what they're buying and selling. — Eric Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Rose Schneiderman

To me, the labor movement was never just a way of getting higher wages. What appealed to me was the spiritual side of a great cause that created fellowship. You wanted the girl or the man who worked beside you to be treated just as well as you were, and an injury to one was the concern of all. — Rose Schneiderman

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The scientific community, public health officials, and others have raised serious doubt about the steps taken to ensure the safety and efficacy of the herbal dietary supplements taken daily by millions of Americans, as part of a broader investigation, NYAG is reviewing the sufficiency of the measures manufacturers and retailers are taking to independently assess the validity of their representations and advertising in connection with the sale of herbal supplements. — Eric Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Rose Schneiderman

Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing. — Rose Schneiderman

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The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth. — Rose Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Eric Schneiderman

New Yorkers have been fortunate to have Andrew Cuomo as our Attorney General - protecting working New Yorkers against the banks, insurance companies and big corporations. — Eric Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Eric Schneiderman

The workers who harvest our food have been systematically denied the basic rights that are granted to all other American workers. They can be fired for trying to form a union or for attempting to improve their working conditions. They are not eligible for overtime pay, disability, or even unemployment insurance. — Eric Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Rose Schneiderman

Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that. — Rose Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Eric Schneiderman

We've sued out-of-state power plants that are polluting our air and led a coalition of attorneys general from Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Massachusetts against efforts in the U.S. House of Representatives to remove critical environmental regulations that protect New York communities from toxic pollution. — Eric Schneiderman

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Manufacturers must accept responsibility for their customers' safety. — Eric Schneiderman

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Transactional politics requires us to be pragmatic about current realities and the state of public opinion. It's all about getting the best result possible given the circumstances here and now. — Eric Schneiderman

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Fraud is fraud. And consumers of any product - whether you want to buy a car, participate in fantasy football - our laws are very strong in New York and other states that you can't commit fraud. — Eric Schneiderman

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By cracking down on wage theft, we can make sure workers and taxpayers are not getting ripped off by crooked employers. — Eric Schneiderman

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Thieves sell to unscrupulous merchants who pay hundreds of dollars for phones - no questions asked - and then 'jailbreak' them. They unlock the units, erase their data, reprogram them, and put them up for resale. — Eric Schneiderman

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Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained. — Eric Schneiderman

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As the state's top lawyer, I am empowered to protect nonprofit donors from fraudulent solicitations and charitable assets from misuse. — Eric Schneiderman

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Our elected representatives wisely enacted laws to protect our state and local governments from undue outside influence. — Eric Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Chris Hayes

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz opened up a new line of attack on Donald Trump, targeting his involvement in Trump University, a for-profit, non-licensed now defunct institution which triggered lawsuits from individuals who claimed they were defrauded by him, as well as a suit alleging fraud from New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman. — Chris Hayes

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Morally bankrupt wage practices and laws cannot hold. — Eric Schneiderman

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There's nothing wrong with advocating for your own company. — Eric Schneiderman

Schneiderman Quotes By Rose Schneiderman

We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting. — Rose Schneiderman

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The memory of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire stands as a reminder that legal protections and workplace safety standards were won through a long struggle for social justice and at great human cost. — Eric Schneiderman

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I have three very simple principles. I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency, that people have to really not just know but understand what they're buying and selling. And that you have to have enough capital to back up your promises. — Eric Schneiderman

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Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal ... — Bess Streeter Aldrich

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I believe that in New York, we must have one set of rules for everyone - and that means women cannot be unfairly denied health coverage. — Eric Schneiderman

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My actual statement during the campaign was I want to be the sheriff of Wall Street, Albany and Main Street. I'm going to go after crime and corruption, wherever it is. — Eric Schneiderman

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You can't have some institutions that are protected by the law, not allowed to fail, and not held to account, and all the other companies in America are allowed to fail. You can't have equal justice under law and too big to fail. — Eric Schneiderman

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The bottom line is clear: Climate change is a reality, and it is having a real impact. — Eric Schneiderman

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After the 1970s, when President Nixon's illegal campaign cash was used as a secret slush fund to pay for the Watergate burglary and cover-up, Americans have demanded to know where the money fueling our elections is coming from. — Eric Schneiderman

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When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the claim are true. — Eric Schneiderman

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My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law. — Eric Schneiderman

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When a donor is asked to contribute to a group whose innocuous-sounding name makes it appear to be doing work in the public interest, that donor should have a clear picture of where his or her money is going. — Eric Schneiderman

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In New York, we have laws against defrauding the public, defrauding consumers, defrauding shareholders. — Eric Schneiderman

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People plead guilty or admit to crimes they didn't commit for various reasons. Certain interrogation procedures produce high rates of false confessions. — Eric Schneiderman

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We can prevent unfair advantage, and we can avoid the destabilizing effect that high frequency trading can have. — Eric Schneiderman

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A statute that lets some wrongfully convicted individuals seek restitution but denies that right to others is an unjust and unequal application of the law. — Eric Schneiderman

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Every New Yorker has the right to clean air, safe drinking water, and healthy communities to raise their children - and you can rest assured that I will aggressively protect that right, not just on Earth Day, but every day. — Eric Schneiderman

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When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk. — Eric Schneiderman

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History teaches that the overwhelming majority of elected officials follow movement builders outside government when it comes to the new and risky ... Once you recognize it, demand it and reward it, it will happen. — Eric Schneiderman

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There are few people who exemplify the ideals of opportunity, entrepreneurship and commitment to the collective good than the great New Yorker and the face of the $10 bill, Alexander Hamilton. — Eric Schneiderman

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We're going after the possibilities of tax fraud, insurance fraud, securities fraud. We're going to look at this stuff very closely. We have the jurisdiction, we have the resources, and we have the will. — Eric Schneiderman

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Once they are charged, too many poor New Yorkers find themselves trapped by our unjust bail system. Unable to pay for bail, they languish in Rikers Island or other jails while they await trial, regardless of guilt. — Eric Schneiderman

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Trump University had neither a license nor a charter from New York State certifying it as an institution of higher education. — Eric Schneiderman