We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN In 'Citizens United v. FEC', the Supreme Court ruled that sections of the federal campaign f...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Every day, in every city and town across the country, police officers are performing vital services ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN The bottom line is clear: Climate change is a reality, and it is having a real impact.
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Every New Yorker has the right to clean air, safe drinking water, and healthy communities to raise t...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Games of chance often involve some amount of skill; this does not make them legal. Good poker player...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN I have three very simple principles. I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminat...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN We've sued out-of-state power plants that are polluting our air and led a coalition of attorneys...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN As Attorney General, my most important responsibility is keeping New Yorkers safe by enforcing the l...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Organizing gives workers the power to lift themselves out of poverty and build a better future.
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN The workers who harvest our food have been systematically denied the basic rights that are granted t...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN The secret's out: New York's Labor Law provides the power to help low-wage workers earn enou...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Once they are charged, too many poor New Yorkers find themselves trapped by our unjust bail system. ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN In the 1960s, the public demanded seat belts in cars, but automakers balked. Not until government in...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN New Yorkers have been fortunate to have Andrew Cuomo as our Attorney General - protecting working Ne...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, wast...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN A statute that lets some wrongfully convicted individuals seek restitution but denies that right to ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN In a system that disproportionately harms poor people and people of color, too many Americans have l...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN As the state's top lawyer, I am empowered to protect nonprofit donors from fraudulent solicitati...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN We're very interested in seeing what science Exxon has been using for its own purposes because t...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN When I was in the Senate, I worked to pass Women's Health and Wellness Act, which bars insurance...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Language has historically stood as a barrier for some voters seeking to participate in the electoral...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained.
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Right here in New York, people are struggling in working conditions not much safer or fairer than th...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN You can't have some institutions that are protected by the law, not allowed to fail, and not hel...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN That is the definition of equal justice under law: everyone gets a fair shot, everyone pays their fa...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone els...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justi...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN I'm very interested in the more grass-roots consequences of the economic meltdown: issues relate...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN The right to organize is a fundamental right for American workers.
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN The credit reporting system suffers from inaccuracy and often from outright injustice.
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN We're going after the possibilities of tax fraud, insurance fraud, securities fraud. We're g...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN People plead guilty or admit to crimes they didn't commit for various reasons. Certain interroga...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN You wanna know people are held accountable if they engage in misconduct and that no one is above the...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN For more than a century, states have sought to protect the integrity of the democratic process at th...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Our elected representatives wisely enacted laws to protect our state and local governments from undu...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Thieves sell to unscrupulous merchants who pay hundreds of dollars for phones - no questions asked -...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Abandoned homes become magnets for vandalism and crime. They drag down the property values of neighb...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN My actual statement during the campaign was I want to be the sheriff of Wall Street, Albany and Main...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN The Supreme Court should follow settled precedent and allow states like New York to manage our own l...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN The memory of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire stands as a remind...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Trump University had neither a license nor a charter from New York State certifying it as an institu...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN New Yorkers must be able to trust the men and women of the NYPD. They must come forward to report cr...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Anyone who believes in the essential role government can play in improving people's lives must a...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Prosecutors are all used to people who commit fraud making wild accusations when they're caught.
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Prosecutors are all used to persons who commit fraud making wild accusations when they're caught...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN After the 1970s, when President Nixon's illegal campaign cash was used as a secret slush fund to...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN As New York's chief law enforcement officer, I have taken a hard line against those in state gov...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN A staunch abolitionist, Hamilton was one of the founding members of the New York Manumission Society...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN I look forward to continuing to serve the people of New York and making our state a safer place to l...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transpa...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the...
ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid ...
ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot...
ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.
ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what t...
ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to prov...
ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN invest in editorial. This is what they're about. It's quite refreshing.
DAVID SCHNEIDERMAN We kept our finger firmly planted in the eye of the establishment when Murdoch owned us, ... It's pa...
DAVID SCHNEIDERMAN The issue is, what's in the newspaper? I would challenge anyone who's critical of this to point to a...
DAVID SCHNEIDERMAN They are both independent, rather ferocious while poking their finger in the eye of people with powe...
DAVID SCHNEIDERMAN I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know fr...
ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.
ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
ERIC HOLDER Children are the keys of paradise.
ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
ERIC HOFFER Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and ...
ERIC HOFFER The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
ERIC HOFFER It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to le...
ERIC HOFFER Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us...
ERIC HOFFER Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFER The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
ERIC HOFFER We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
ERIC HOFFER One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if yo...
ERIC HOLDER I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the ...
ERIC DAVIS I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald'...
ERIC SCHLOSSER Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
ERIC SEVAREID If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root ca...
ERIC TOPOL A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-por...
ERIC KANDEL I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind.
ERIC ANDRE A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins...
ERIC BERNE Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invente...
ERIC SCHMIDT Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have ...
ERIC HOLDER Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as...
ERIC DANE It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd ra...
ERIC DAVIS I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, ...
ERIC ANDRE If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.
ERIC CANTONA I love cheese and biscuits, the stronger the better.
ERIC BRISTOW Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright ci...
ERIC LIU I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Bud...
ERIC RIPERT First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venu...
ERIC ANDRE Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it...
ERIC BROWN When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've bee...
ERIC LIU I have two bowls of confidence for breakfast each morning.
ERIC BRISTOW If you are going to make a change, make it big and bold. Walk up to the biggest guy on the block, st...
ERIC SHINSEKI With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America int...
ERIC SEVAREID You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,&...
ERIC STOLTZ The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby t...
ERIC HOFFER The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When t...
ERIC HOFFER How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
ERIC HOFFER There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people; we are laying up for...
ERIC HOFFER It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs.
ERIC HOFFER I have a Tinder account. Now I've done Bumble, and I've tried this other one, and the way I ...
ERIC STONESTREET At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calc...
ERIC MASKIN If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entreprene...
ERIC RIES All I ever wanted to do was get a great job on a TV show. When I read 'Modern Family' and st...
ERIC STONESTREET My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond.
ERIC MCCORMACK Great businessmen are creators.
ERIC CANTONA I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think...
ERIC DICKERSON Within that dream of working with your partner, you want to be able to separate and have a home life...
ERIC WINTER There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the ...
ERIC RIES If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with s...
ERIC MASSA There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.
ERIC TOPOL There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure ...
ERIC TOPOL As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrop...
ERIC ALTERMAN I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
ERIC CLAPTON With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the ...
ERIC WHITACRE There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who ...
ERIC CHURCH A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a sym...
ERIC HOFFER There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
ERIC HOFFER Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in ...
ERIC HOFFER The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger ...
ERIC HOFFER Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species t...
ERIC GELMAN Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop ...
ERIC LIU When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affe...
ERIC MASKIN It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer f...
ERIC HOFFER Mass is resistance to motion.
ERIC PARSLOW One of the keys to wealth is to understand why & how the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater tha...
ERIC PARSLOW The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
ERIC HOFFER Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to...
ERIC HOFFER Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airpla...
ERIC HOLDER 'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't...
ERIC ANDRE The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

ERIC HOFFER Anything and everything, physical or otherwise, is defined by its absence.
ERIC PARSLOW Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality.
ERIC PARSLOW Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
ERIC HOFFER The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of...
ERIC HOFFER The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in w...
ERIC HOFFER Remembering​ ​is​ ​something​ ​God​ ​asks​ ​us​ ​to​ ​do​ ​over​ �...
ERIC IRIVUZUMUGABE Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
ERIC HOFFER The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their ...
ERIC HOFFER The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as ...
ERIC HOFFER Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in l...
ERIC HOFFER Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for se...
ERIC HOFFER Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions ...
ERIC HOFFER The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ac...
ERIC HOFFER As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy u...
ERIC WEINER For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman ...
ERIC AMBLER Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo...
ERIC WEINER It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off
ERIC BOGOSIAN I know what I want to hear. I want to hear the "Believe it or Not" song. I want to play that shit lo...
ERIC SPITZNAGEL The chief cause of problems is solutions.
ERIC SEVAREID When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common...
ERIC HOFFER Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring...
ERIC HOFFER Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can...
ERIC HOFFER Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would i...
ERIC HOFFER To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain e...
ERIC HOFFER For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be....
ERIC ROTH The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer se...
ERIC BERNE It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers ...
ERIC FONER Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn'...
ERIC IDLE Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
ERIC HOFFER It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposi...
ERIC HOFFER There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmar...
ERIC HOFFER The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
ERIC HOFFER It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
ERIC HOFFER It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create someth...
ERIC HOFFER Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist...
ERIC HOFFER It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and presen...
ERIC HOFFER Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stu...
ERIC HOFFER An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anyth...
ERIC HOFFER Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
ERIC HOFFER No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need p...
ERIC HOFFER One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of t...
ERIC HOFFER In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them...
ERIC HOFFER I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
ERIC JENSEN It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
ERIC HOFFER Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
ERIC HOFFER The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things o...
ERIC HOFFER The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...
ERIC HOFFER We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
ERIC HOFFER You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o...
ERIC BURDON If you think you can do it, you can.
ERIC LINDROS Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and...
ERIC HOFFER Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about o...
ERIC HOFFER The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine h...
ERIC HOFFER