Quotes from 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.


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.


I am running for Attorney General because I believe there is no higher calling than the pursuit of justice.


I am not in the entertainment business; I am in the justice business.


High-frequency traders are firms all around the world. They're massive investments.


Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained.


Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.


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


Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.


Daily fantasy sports is much closer to online poker than it is to traditional fantasy sports.


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


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.


As the state's chief law enforcement officer, it's my job to see that perpetrators of fraud are brought to 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.


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


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


I'm going to go after crime and corruption wherever it is. But I did focus particularly on the need to restore public confidence in essential institutions of both the public and private sector.


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.


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.


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