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" Abandoned homes are everyone's problem, afflicting communities all over the state. "
Abandoned
Over
Problem
" Abandoned homes become magnets for vandalism and crime. They drag down the property values of neighboring homes. "
Crime
Values
Down
" 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. "
World
Measure
Phone
" 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. "
Used
Cash
Elections
" 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. "
Abuse
Play
Trust
" As Attorney General, my most important responsibility is keeping New Yorkers safe by enforcing the laws that protect our people from harm. But another fundamental part of my job is to seek to advance the basic American principle of equal justice under law. "
Job
Responsibility
Justice
" 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. "
New
Government
Law
" 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. "
Right
Some
Seek
" 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. "
New York
School
He
" As the state's chief law enforcement officer, it's my job to see that perpetrators of fraud are brought to justice. "
See
Law
Justice
" As the state's top lawyer, I am empowered to protect nonprofit donors from fraudulent solicitations and charitable assets from misuse. "
Nonprofit
Lawyer
I Am
" By cracking down on wage theft, we can make sure workers and taxpayers are not getting ripped off by crooked employers. "
Theft
Sure
Off
" Daily fantasy sports is much closer to online poker than it is to traditional fantasy sports. "
Daily
Sports
Fantasy
" 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. "
Sports
Daily
Country
" Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else. "
Justice
Else
Everyone
" Every day, in every city and town across the country, police officers are performing vital services that help make their communities safer. "
Help
Town
City
" 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. "
Healthy
Water
Rest
" Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy. "
Vote
Democracy
Essential
" 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. "
People
Alone
Budget
" For more than a century, states have sought to protect the integrity of the democratic process at the state and local level by regulating corporate spending in elections. "
Elections
Protect
Process
" 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. "
New York
Car
Football
" From the Bronx to Buffalo, cities and towns in New York have been plagued by what are commonly called zombie properties. These are homes that residents abandon - often after they have received a foreclosure notice - which then languish, uncared-for, until the foreclosure process is complete. "
New
Process
Zombie
" Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained. "
Gambling
Go
People
" 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. "
Legal
New York
Chance
" 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. "
Seeing
New York
Change
" High-frequency traders are firms all around the world. They're massive investments. And there is an incredible race for speed now. People are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to shave milliseconds off. "
Speed
Now
Race
" 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. "
Reward
History
You
" I am not in the entertainment business; I am in the justice business. "
Justice
Business
Entertainment
" I am running for Attorney General because I believe there is no higher calling than the pursuit of justice. "
I Believe
Believe
I Am
" 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. "
Believe
Rules
New York
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