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
Every day, in every city and town across the country, police officers are performing vital services that help make their communities safer.
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.
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.
Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.
My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.
Abandoned homes become magnets for vandalism and crime. They drag down the property values of neighboring homes.
As the state's chief law enforcement officer, it's my job to see that perpetrators of fraud are brought to justice.
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.
Unions go hand-in-hand with a strong middle class.
More money is being spent on our elections, with less disclosure of where that money is coming from, than ever before.
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.
Prosecutors are all used to people who commit fraud making wild accusations when they're caught.
Very few checklist liberals will focus on transformational work if they are rewarded or punished only for their transactional work.
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.
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.
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.
You wanna know people are held accountable if they engage in misconduct and that no one is above the law.
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.
I am not in the entertainment business; I am in the justice business.
By cracking down on wage theft, we can make sure workers and taxpayers are not getting ripped off by crooked employers.
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.
I have the highest possible regard for the district attorneys in the State of New York.
Our review concludes that DraftKings'/FanDuel's operations constitute illegal gambling under New York law.
High-frequency traders are firms all around the world. They're massive investments.
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.
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.
Transformational politics requires us to challenge the way people think about issues, opening their minds to better possibilities.
We must use every tool at our disposal to lift the living standards of low-wage employees.
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.
The credit reporting system suffers from inaccuracy and often from outright injustice.
We can prevent unfair advantage, and we can avoid the destabilizing effect that high frequency trading can have.
If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.
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.
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.
Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.
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.
When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk.
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.
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.
Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority.
My job is to enforce the law, without fear or favor.
The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.
In 'Citizens United v. FEC', the Supreme Court ruled that sections of the federal campaign finance law known as McCain-Feingold imposed unconstitutional restrictions on the First Amendment rights of corporations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Daily fantasy sports is much closer to online poker than it is to traditional fantasy sports.
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.
