American - Politician | December 31, 1954 -
Every day, in every city and town across the country, police officers are performing vital services that help make their communities safer.
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The workers who harvest our food have been systematically denied the basic rights that are granted to all other American workers. They can be fired for trying to form a union or for attempting to improve their working conditions. They are not eligible for overtime pay, disability, or even unemployment insurance.
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The memory of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire stands as a reminder that legal protections and workplace safety standards were won through a long struggle for social justice and at great human cost.
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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.
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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.
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Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.
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Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained.
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If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.
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Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.
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We're very interested in seeing what science Exxon has been using for its own purposes because they're tremendously active in offshore oil drilling in the Arctic, for example, where global warming is happening at a much more rapid rate than in more temperate zones.
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People plead guilty or admit to crimes they didn't commit for various reasons. Certain interrogation procedures produce high rates of false confessions.
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The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports.
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