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I'm a hard headed lawyer.
Good luck with your asparagus.
We are not programmed to bury our kids.
I don't have any intention of resigning.
I'm a 21st century guy, secure in who I am.
I'm a 21st-century guy, secure in who I am.
The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.
It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.
Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.
I am the attorney general of the United States, but I am also a black man.
I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man.
History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.
No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law.
If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label.
Displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive.
I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons.
You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
I'll leave here with my head held high and with confidence that history will judge my time here.
You keep your eyes on the prize, you try to do what's right, and eventually, you'll reach your goal.
I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.
The vast majority of law enforcement officers conduct themselves in really honorable, appropriate ways.
Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.
Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.
The full resources of the Department of Justice have been committed to the investigation into Michael Brown's death.
The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind.
Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies.
I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.
I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.
The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents.
I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.
If I were attorney general in Kansas in 1953, I would not have defended a Kansas statute that put in place separate-but-equal facilities.
Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.
The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.
We must stand our ground to ensure that our laws reduce violence and take a hard look at laws that contribute to more violence than they prevent.
I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.
There are a whole variety of reasons I want to be attorney general, a whole variety of things that I do as attorney general that go beyond national security.
Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.
Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.
We need election systems that are free from fraud, discrimination, and partisan influence and that are more, not less, accessible to the citizens of this country.
One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation.
I think they clearly do not fit within the prescriptions of the Geneva Convention. It's hard for me to see how members of al Qaeda could be considered prisoners of war.
I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe.
To those in the executive branch who say ‘just trust us’ when it comes to secret and warrantless surveillance of domestic communications, I say, ‘Remember your history.’
This is going to be a very transparent Justice Department. But I'm not gonna sacrifice the safety of the American people or our ability to protect the American homeland.
It is the thing that keeps me up at night - the notion that you have individuals in the United States who are looking at computer screens and who are becoming radicalized.
I actually think that the dotting of the i's and the crossing of the t's is what separates the United States, the United Kingdom, our allies, from those who we are fighting.
Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used.
Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.
Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards
At a time when we must seek to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the local community, I am deeply concerned that the deployment of military equipment and vehicles sends a conflicting message.