"This moment, this opportunity is a gift from the gods of liberal women in politics."
"If you can write off billions of fines as the cost of simply doing business, how are overdraft fees anything other than an ideological tool to simply further punish the poor?"
"In my district, I represent Rikers Island. I represent kids who go to jail for jumping a turnstile because they can't afford a Metro card."
"I do want to commend you for your decision, and Chase's decision to pull out of financing for private prisons."
"I was really going back and reviewing these last 10 years and I have concerns about how much things have really changed."
"The question is no longer whether someone will leave but when."
"So the fact that subsidies for fossil fuel corporations are somehow smart but subsidies for the development of solar panels is 'socialist' is just bad faith and it is incorrect."
"So I think what we have laid out here is a very clear moral problem, and in terms of leadership, if we fail to act, or even if we delay in acting, we will have blood on our hands."
"So they were kind of creating these second and third degree organizations so that they could distance themselves from the political damage of climate denial, but still fully participate and fund it."
"Wow. Well, so it was almost like the lobbyists were the pitcher, and they were kind of giving these hand signals letting the delegates know what they can and cannot vote on based on lobbyists' interes..."
"it is fair to conclude that industry--fossil fuel industry lobbyists are largely responsible for our failure to act on climate change a generation ago"