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.
Abandoned homes become magnets for vandalism and crime. They drag down the property values of neighboring homes.
Prosecutors are all used to people who commit fraud making wild accusations when they're caught.
Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.
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.
Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.
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.
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.
We can prevent unfair advantage, and we can avoid the destabilizing effect that high frequency trading can have.
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.
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.
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.
Every day, in every city and town across the country, police officers are performing vital services that help make their communities safer.
Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority.
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.
My job is to enforce the law, without fear or favor.
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.
You wanna know people are held accountable if they engage in misconduct and that no one is above the law.
