Top 100 Schneiderman's Quotes
#1. Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal ...
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#2. Just as we demand that people take responsibility for their actions, we as a society must take responsibility for fighting injustice.
Eric Schneiderman
#3. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#4. We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.
Rose Schneiderman
#5. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#6. Unlike most traditional, season-long fantasy sports sites, which make most of their money from administrative fees and advertising, FanDuel and DraftKings take a cut of every bet. That is what bookies do, and it is illegal in New York.
Eric Schneiderman
#7. Our investigation has found that, unlike traditional fantasy sports, daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling and misleading New York consumers.
Eric Schneiderman
#8. I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.
Rose Schneiderman
#9. But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us.
Rose Schneiderman
#10. If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.
Eric Schneiderman
#11. In 1980, a young Senator Al Gore held the first Congressional hearings on global warming.
Eric Schneiderman
#12. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#13. By cracking down on wage theft, we can make sure workers and taxpayers are not getting ripped off by crooked employers.
Eric Schneiderman
#14. Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority.
Eric Schneiderman
#15. The distribution of wealth is not determined by nature. It is determined by policy.
Eric Schneiderman
#16. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#17. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#18. When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk.
Eric Schneiderman
#19. Once they are charged, too many poor New Yorkers find themselves trapped by our unjust bail system. Unable to pay for bail, they languish in Rikers Island or other jails while they await trial, regardless of guilt.
Eric Schneiderman
#20. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#21. No woman should have her personal health care decisions dictated by the religious beliefs of her boss.
Eric Schneiderman
#22. The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports.
Eric Schneiderman
#23. 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
#24. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#25. The right to organize is a fundamental right for American workers.
Eric Schneiderman
#26. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#27. Today, for many people, being a union member simply means paying dues, but in the early days there were so few of us that if a majority of the members were not active, the union ceased to exist.
Rose Schneiderman
#28. The secret's out: New York's Labor Law provides the power to help low-wage workers earn enough to meet their basic needs.
Eric Schneiderman
#29. Our review concludes that DraftKings'/FanDuel's operations constitute illegal gambling under New York law.
Eric Schneiderman
#30. Transactional politics requires us to be pragmatic about current realities and the state of public opinion. It's all about getting the best result possible given the circumstances here and now.
Eric Schneiderman
#31. As the state's chief law enforcement officer, it's my job to see that perpetrators of fraud are brought to justice.
Eric Schneiderman
#32. I read upon the subject and grew more and more interested, and after a time I became a member of the National Board, and had duties and responsibilities that kept me busy after my day's work was done.
Rose Schneiderman
#33. People plead guilty or admit to crimes they didn't commit for various reasons. Certain interrogation procedures produce high rates of false confessions.
Eric Schneiderman
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained.
Eric Schneiderman
#37. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#38. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#39. The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.
Eric Schneiderman
#40. We must use every tool at our disposal to lift the living standards of low-wage employees.
Eric Schneiderman
#41. Right here in New York, people are struggling in working conditions not much safer or fairer than the sweatshops of 1911.
Eric Schneiderman
#42. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#43. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#44. We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.
Rose Schneiderman
#45. In the 1960s, the public demanded seat belts in cars, but automakers balked. Not until government intervened did seat belts become standard equipment. Now, no one would consider buying a vehicle without this basic safety feature.
Eric Schneiderman
#46. The bottom line is clear: Climate change is a reality, and it is having a real impact.
Eric Schneiderman
#47. As the state's top lawyer, I am empowered to protect nonprofit donors from fraudulent solicitations and charitable assets from misuse.
Eric Schneiderman
#48. Prosecutors are all used to people who commit fraud making wild accusations when they're caught.
Eric Schneiderman
#50. To me, the labor movement was never just a way of getting higher wages. What appealed to me was the spiritual side of a great cause that created fellowship. You wanted the girl or the man who worked beside you to be treated just as well as you were, and an injury to one was the concern of all.
Rose Schneiderman
#51. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#52. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#53. Our people were very restive, saying that they could not sit under that notice, and that if the National Board did not call them out soon they would go out of themselves.
Rose Schneiderman
#54. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#55. My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.
Eric Schneiderman
#56. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#57. Obviously, Nevada doesn't prohibit all forms of gambling, but you have to submit yourself to a very rigorous regulatory process to run a gambling operation in Nevada.
Eric Schneiderman
#58. 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
#59. I'm very interested in the more grass-roots consequences of the economic meltdown: issues related to mortgage foreclosures, debt collection, and the practices of credit card companies and others who hold a lot of consumer debt.
Eric Schneiderman
#60. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#61. So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more.
Rose Schneiderman
#63. Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.
Rose Schneiderman
#64. Abandoned homes are everyone's problem, afflicting communities all over the state.
Eric Schneiderman
#65. More money is being spent on our elections, with less disclosure of where that money is coming from, than ever before.
Eric Schneiderman
#66. By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that.
Rose Schneiderman
#67. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#68. When I was in the Senate, I worked to pass Women's Health and Wellness Act, which bars insurance companies from discriminating against the health care needs of women.
Eric Schneiderman
#69. Daily fantasy sports is much closer to online poker than it is to traditional fantasy sports.
Eric Schneiderman
#70. 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
#71. We're going after the possibilities of tax fraud, insurance fraud, securities fraud. We're going to look at this stuff very closely. We have the jurisdiction, we have the resources, and we have the will.
Eric Schneiderman
#72. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#73. I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days.
Rose Schneiderman
#74. Very few checklist liberals will focus on transformational work if they are rewarded or punished only for their transactional work.
Eric Schneiderman
#75. I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.
Rose Schneiderman
#76. The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.
Rose Schneiderman
#77. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#78. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#79. Manufacturers must accept responsibility for their customers' safety.
Eric Schneiderman
#80. Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.
Eric Schneiderman
#81. We can prevent unfair advantage, and we can avoid the destabilizing effect that high frequency trading can have.
Eric Schneiderman
#82. In New York, we have laws against defrauding the public, defrauding consumers, defrauding shareholders.
Eric Schneiderman
#83. I look forward to continuing to serve the people of New York and making our state a safer place to live, work and raise families for many years to come.
Eric Schneiderman
#84. I have the highest possible regard for the district attorneys in the State of New York.
Eric Schneiderman
#85. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#86. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#87. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#88. 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.
Eric Schneiderman
#89. The Supreme Court should follow settled precedent and allow states like New York to manage our own labor relations to achieve labor peace and government efficiency and to continue our long tradition of support for workers.
Eric Schneiderman
#90. The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
Rose Schneiderman
#92. You wanna know people are held accountable if they engage in misconduct and that no one is above the law.
Eric Schneiderman
#93. Transformational politics requires us to challenge the way people think about issues, opening their minds to better possibilities.
Eric Schneiderman
#94. High-frequency traders are firms all around the world. They're massive investments.
Eric Schneiderman
#95. I am running for Attorney General because I believe there is no higher calling than the pursuit of justice.
Eric Schneiderman
#96. Trump University had neither a license nor a charter from New York State certifying it as an institution of higher education.
Eric Schneiderman
#97. Organizing gives workers the power to lift themselves out of poverty and build a better future.
Eric Schneiderman
#98. I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.
Rose Schneiderman
#99. It is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of one is the concern of all and that the work of the individual benefits all.
Rose Schneiderman
#100. We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting.
Rose Schneiderman
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