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Corruption requires looking into someone's soul and making judgments about their intent. ”
And my whole life I've been focused on questions of anti-corruption laws, on constitutional law, and it's essential that the power of this office be maximized to stop corruption at the national level. ”
Every politician should go and spend time and visit prisons and jails. Because if you are choosing to exercise this kind of power over another person's life, there's a role for that, but you have to know the kind of power you are exercising. ”
It's one of those secrets that not a lot of politicians realize: The Internet is not a 10th-tier policy issue. It's not an add-on policy. It's something that affects everybody's life. ”
People traverse the dangerous journey to the US because of deep fear. They are often escaping brutality, even life-or-death situations. ”
Wealthy individuals have always had the capacity to influence politics, of course, but only after two key campaign finance cases - Wisconsin Right to Life and and Citizens United, have they been able to do it in such a large and blatant way. ”
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. ”
President Trump is taking foreign money through his businesses, which is in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. ”
So one of the things I want to focus on is how we can show how taking on private financing is taking on this fundamental democratic threat. ”
You may think of Google as a single organic entity, but in 2011 it bought a different company every week. ”