Lawyer

Every constitutional standard is engaged in difficult but important line-drawing.

Women's voices need to be in politics, and shaping politics from the very beginning, not serve as an afterthought.

Anti-corruption is a core constitutional value. It always has been.

The public should have access to unfettered communication and commerce, and the Internet is increasingly the medium where that takes place.

As attorney general, I would work with my colleagues in other states to launch a major antitrust investigation to look into the ways in which Facebook and Google are wielding and may be abusing their duopoly powers.

We fought a revolution to free ourselves from arbitrary power and the whims of a monarch.

In my view, we need to break up Facebook from Instagram and the other potential competitors that Facebook bought up.

Mom and pop shops paying taxes while Amazon got billions just to come to town didn't seem right, and, post-FoxxConn, people are less likely to fall for the promised jobs numbers.

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.

Facebook and Google are essentially an advertising duopoly, and we have almost no idea how their algorithms work.

I joke about it being a millstone, but it never hurts to have a name that sticks out.

At their best, new media are chaotic. The new technologies disrupt political pomp and glamour and engage people in an unpolished and unpredictable give-and-take. They also give citizens access to a surprising depth of raw information.

Voters have a responsibility to make a judgment with whatever facts are available on Election Day.

Corruption requires looking into someone's soul and making judgments about their intent.

It is an honor to join 'The Nation's esteemed editorial board.

You build massive databases, you learn everything you can about the people in those databases, you figure out exactly how they can be useful to your campaign, and you ask them to donate money, door-knock, the virtual equivalent of being a sort of army of stamp lickers.

The structure of private campaign finance has essentially pre-corrupted our politicians, so that they can't even recognize explicit bribery because it feels the same as what they do every day.

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.

Women are routinely demeaned, dismissed, discouraged and assaulted. Too many women's careers are stymied or ended because of harassment and abuse. In politics, where I have worked much of my adult life, this behavior is rampant.

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.