Quotes by Richard Blumenthal

“This mindless rigidity harms our taxpayers, but most of all our children.”

“This potential fraud, now under active investigation by the state and other authorities, may indicate the need for stronger oversight and active regulation of the hedge fund industry.”

“Our positions are solidifying, ... Our objective and our paramount goal really is to stop the anti-competitive practice that restrains consumers choices, whether it is requiring the browser be purchased and be incorporated into the Windows product, or restraints on the Internet service providers and content providers.”

“Joel Klein has taken antitrust enforcement to a new and higher level of intellectual rigor and forceful advocacy and protection of the public, ... Hes been more proactive and consumer minded than many other antitrust enforcers. Joel is a hands-on enforcer who is enormously energetic and supportive of his staff, inspires tremendous loyalty, and has very insightful judgment.”

“We need to develop a strategy that offers consumers the most immediate kind of remedy to the monopolistic power that Microsoft has misused, and to prevent Microsoft from repeating what seems to be the same kind of misconduct,”

“The permit is issued to the national entity Andersen, and its actions, regardless of where they take place, are relevant to Andersens fitness to practice in Connecticut,”

“We think that as of right now, unless the federal government tells us otherwise, we can continue to do as we have done with our system, ... We believe that our regulation embodies a valid state policy that articulates our belief that school boards are in a better position to muster the facts and expertise in any contest with ordinary parents.”

“The modified measures should deflate Microsofts overblown rhetoric and apocalyptic predictions about the proposed remedies.”

“We need to develop a strategy that offers consumers the most immediate kind of remedy to the monopolistic power that Microsoft has misused, and to prevent Microsoft from repeating what seems to be the same kind of misconduct.”

“This project has no place in Long Island Sound. It would threaten navigation security and be a sitting target for terrorists.”

“Consent is simply a fig leaf for marketing.”

“This proposal is a power grab, ... an illegal power grab that we must meet head to head and we must hold our ground in court.”

“We are actually in a better position than Pennsylvania was, ... because we have been deprived of all of our air national guard planes. Pennsylvania lost only a quarter.”

“This order assures that the BRAC commission will not be sent to the president before the court rules on our lawsuits request for a hearing, ... Our reason for seeking this order was to assure that the court has a full opportunity to consider our arguments before Connecticut may be threatened with the very substantial irreparable harm of this realignment.”

“Its a groundbreaking win for consumers and a clear warning for the entire industry that these schemes must stop,”

“groundbreaking win for consumers and a clear warning for the entire industry that these schemes must stop.”

“We are in seriously uncharted legal territory, ... But there is no precedent for a state winning when BRAC acted lawlessly.”

“This delay is hopefully a sign that the BIA is giving this Eastern Pequot decision the careful deliberation, and denial, it deserves,”

“This agreement sends a clear message to Medicaid chiselers: Defraud the state and you will pay,”

“We have no idea what the legal basis is for these claims, ... There seems to be no legal or factual basis for these claims since the state has played absolutely no role in this internal church dispute. ? We really, essentially, have no idea what they mean by this claim.”