108 Quotes by Eric Schneiderman

When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk.

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.

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.

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.

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.

More money is being spent on our elections, with less disclosure of where that money is coming from, than ever before.

Morally bankrupt wage practices and laws cannot hold.

In 1980, a young Senator Al Gore held the first Congressional hearings on global warming.

We must use every tool at our disposal to lift the living standards of low-wage employees.