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" In 1980, a young Senator Al Gore held the first Congressional hearings on global warming. "
Eric Schneiderman
Global Warming
Global
First
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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. "
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" My office is committed to tearing down unlawful barriers to voting to ensure that all eligible voters are able to freely cast a ballot. "
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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. "
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" The president and I had much more important stuff to talk about than Donald Trump. I've never discussed Mr. Trump with the president of the United States. "
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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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" We've got to do more to ensure that people who work full time are not living in poverty and that the massive gap between rich and poor - which is fundamentally un-American, as far as I'm concerned - is somehow dealt with. "
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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. "
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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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" Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy. "
Eric Schneiderman
Vote
Democracy
Essential
" Abandoned homes are everyone's problem, afflicting communities all over the state. "
Eric Schneiderman
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" The right to organize is a fundamental right for American workers. "
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American
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" 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
American
Disability
Food
" 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. "
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Forward
Men
New
" Prosecutors are all used to persons who commit fraud making wild accusations when they're caught. "
Eric Schneiderman
Who
Wild
Caught
" I am not in the entertainment business; I am in the justice business. "
Eric Schneiderman
Justice
Business
Entertainment
" 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. "
Eric Schneiderman
Elections
Protect
Process
" 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
World
Measure
Phone
" 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
People
Alone
Budget
" Language has historically stood as a barrier for some voters seeking to participate in the electoral process. "
Eric Schneiderman
Seeking
Some
Language
" Abandoned homes become magnets for vandalism and crime. They drag down the property values of neighboring homes. "
Eric Schneiderman
Crime
Values
Down
" 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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School
He
" You wanna know people are held accountable if they engage in misconduct and that no one is above the law. "
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Law
Engage
Above
" We must use every tool at our disposal to lift the living standards of low-wage employees. "
Eric Schneiderman
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Employees
Tool
" The secret's out: New York's Labor Law provides the power to help low-wage workers earn enough to meet their basic needs. "
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Law
Power
New
" Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained. "
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Go
People
" Every day, in every city and town across the country, police officers are performing vital services that help make their communities safer. "
Eric Schneiderman
Help
Town
City
" 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. "
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Work
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" 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. "
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Speed
Now
Race
" Lawmakers zealously guard their prerogatives, and as much as some might oppose a minimum-wage increase, they will not want to see the issue taken out of their hands. "
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Much
Out
Will
" If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government. "
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