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“Women's voices need to be in politics, and shaping politics from the very beginning, not serve as an afterthought.”
“Talking to Republicans who aren't leaders - that's not very difficult both on anti-trust and on campaign finance reform. I think it's a lot more complicated when you talk to highly funded leaders - that's the innate, deeply problematic part of our politics.”
“We need to pressure lawmakers to hold hearings on pending mergers, and pressure federal and state enforcers to use their full powers.”
“I have always wanted to run for Attorney General, and I always wanted to have a baby, but I did not think I would be doing them at the same time.”
“Most of the corruption in Albany is legal corruption, not illegal bribery. It comes from campaigns being funded by millionaires and corporations.”
“The tools Facebook provides make discrimination easy. Facebook has monopoly profit margins, so it could easily provide real staffing to protect against discrimination, if it wanted to. It doesn't want to.”
“Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most central debates in the last 40 years in law, what is corruption.”
“A real economic development policy would address the root issues hampering business growth, like access to credit and marketplaces so dominated by giant companies that it is impossible to compete.”
“Amazon's outsized power is looking less and less like smart business and more and more like oppressive politics - one company bullying us all.”
“Creating systems where people feel like they're being punished for things they didn't do wrong breaks all kinds of trust and makes people feel like they're not being treated with dignity.”
“The public should have access to unfettered communication and commerce, and the Internet is increasingly the medium where that takes place.”
“Political corruption is eating our democracy out from the inside. Most Americans know that. But democratic and economic health can't be easily disentangled.”
“My first job out of law school was representing people on death row in North Carolina, where I often saw the impact of hasty prosecutions.”
“The attorney general of New York state has a special authority and responsibility to preserve the integrity of businesses and nonprofits in New York under the state's own laws as well as under the U.S. Constitution.”
“The Internet doesn't just enable cool avatars and the shorter form. It also allows the deeper form: cross-linked blog posts, extensive research, simultaneous screens and raw debate footage that anyone can scan online, at any time.”
“In some states, the attorney general is appointed, but in New York state it's an independently elected position. The New York attorney general has an obligation to the people first, to her conscience and to the rule of law, not to the governor, and not to the legislature.”
“The science doesn't prove Common Core's effective. So I guess what I mean is science is an essential part of any decision-making process, and so is public involvement. And in the long-term, you lose legitimacy and power if you don't directly engage with the public.”
“Every constitutional standard is engaged in difficult but important line-drawing.”
“There's this myth out there that self-perpetuates that candidates believe that although the populace cares about corruption, they're not going to vote on it.”
“When I was in college in the late 80s-early 90s, there was a sense that history was on a straight path toward democracy everywhere. Well, that's not true. It was also not true that there's a single era of oligarchy, because we showed we could do something about it.”