Quotes by Eric Holder - Page 2

In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost measure what kind of Justice Department you have by what kind of civil rights division that you have.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Civil Rights
Conscience
Department
Division
Civil
Justice Department
Measure
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I'm attorney general of the United States. I will not stand for - I will not allow people to take away that which people gave their lives to give, and that is the ability for the American people to vote.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Attorney
People Will Stand
American People
Attorney General
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With all do respect, senator, I don't think this is an appropriate setting for me to discuss that issue. I'd be more than glad to come back in an appropriate setting to discuss the issues that you have raised.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Issues
Nsa
Thinking
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I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights Movement how the department can - and must - always be a force for that which is right.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Department
Prove
Watched
Civil
Department Of Justice
Rights Movement
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Enforcement priorities and arrest patterns must not lead to disparate treatment under the law, even if such treatment is unintended. And police forces should reflect the diversity of the communities they serve.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Enforcement
Patterns
Priorities
Treatment
Arrest
Communities
Disparate
Forces
Police Forces
Reflect
Serve
Unintended
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In the months ahead, I will leave the Department of Justice, but I will never -- I will never -- leave the work. I will continue to serve and try to find ways to make our nation even more true to its founding ideals.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Leadership
Work
Father
Justice
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When it comes to police officers, I have concerns about the training that they receive. This whole notion of implicit bias, looking at people and having stereotypical reactions to them on the basis of their ethnicity.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Bias
Ethnicity
Implicit
Notion
Officers
Reactions
Basis
Concerns
Police Officers
Receive
Stereotypical
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Those who peacefully gather to express sympathy for the family of Michael Brown must have their rights respected at all times. And journalists must not be harassed or prevented from covering a story that needs to be told.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Sympathy
Brown
Covering
Michael
Gather
Harassed
Journalists
Michael Brown
Peacefully
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I look forward to working with the NRA to come up with ways in which we can use common sense approaches to reduce the level of violence that we see - in our streets, and make the American people as safe as they possibly can be.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Common
Common Sense
Looks
Nra
People
Safe
Streets
Violence
American People
Approaches
Forward
Possibly
Reduce
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I urge the citizens of Ferguson who have been peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to join with law enforcement in condemning the actions of looters, vandals and others seeking to inflame tensions and sow discord.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Condemning
Discord
Enforcement
Ferguson
First Amendment
First Amendment Rights
Law Enforcement
Seeking
Actions
Amendment
Amendment Rights
Exercising
Inflame
Join
Peacefully
Sow
Tensions
Urge
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Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land - is among the gravest that government leaders can face.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Government
Decision
Land
Leader
Citizen
Lethal
Foreign
Foreign Land
Intent
Operational
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I was raised - professionally - in the Public Integrity Section. I started in 1976, stayed there for 12 years. It was formed after Watergate by then-head of the Criminal Division Dick Thornburgh, who ultimately became Attorney General.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Attorney
Division
Integrity
Watergate
Attorney General
Criminal
Formed
Professionally
Section
Stayed
Ultimately
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I'd like to continue being involved with issues that animated my time as attorney general - criminal-justice reform and civil rights especially. I don't just want to give speeches; I'd like to involve myself in this work in a systematic way.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Animated
Attorney
Civil Rights
My Time
Reform
Rights
Systematic
Time Work Myself
General
Attorney General
Civil
Work Time Myself
Involve
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People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we've not engaged in.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Dialogue
Engaged
Not Fair
Uncomfortable
Fear People Way
Fear People Will
Characterized
Express
Fair
Racial
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People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we have not engaged in.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Issues
Talking
Thinking
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Michael Brown's tragic death has revealed a deep distrust between some in the Ferguson community and its police force. It also developed a need to develop and widely disseminate law enforcement best practices for responding to public demonstrations.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Enforcement
Ferguson
Force
Law Enforcement
Police
Police Force
Responding
Tragic
Demonstrations
Develop
Disseminate
Michael
Practices
Revealed
Widely
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Kids who I grew up with, who I played ball with, basketball, baseball, and went to parties with - for whatever reason - they ended up in a fundamentally different place than I did. I'm the attorney general of the United States and they are ex-felons.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Attorney
Baseball
Basketball
Different Place
States
General
Attorney General
Played
Ball
Ended
Fundamentally
Parties
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Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Average
Discussion
Issues
Race
Significant
Occupy
Portion
Racial
Remain
Unresolved
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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. That's the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he's not captured by us. We know that.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Captured
Courtroom
Appear
Bin
Corpse
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One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Amount
Coincidence
Crime
Dysfunction
Impact
Social
Social Problems
Want
Greatest
Deal
Learned
Problems
Underlying
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Although the attorney general is a part of the president's team, you're really separate and apart. You have a special responsibility as the nation's chief law enforcement officer. There has to be a distance that you keep - between this department and the White House.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Attorney
Department
Distance
Enforcement
House
Law Enforcement
President
Responsibility
Special
Team
White
White House
Although
Apart
General
Attorney General
Chief
Nation
Officer
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In January 2013, I told the people in the Justice Department after the re-election that I wanted to focus on reforming the federal criminal justice system. I made an announcement in August of that year in San Francisco, when we rolled out the Smart on Crime initiative.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
August
Crime
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Department
Focus
Initiative
January
San Francisco
Smart
Announcement
Federal
Francisco
Justice Department
Re-Election
Reforming
San
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Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will not be the last. The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Constitution has meaning for all communities.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
County
Department
Engaged
Equitable
Ferguson
Louis
Communities
Department Of Justice
Ensure
Policing
St. Louis
Tirelessly
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On a personal level, I've seen a lot in my time as attorney general, but few things have affected me as greatly as my visit to Ferguson. I had the chance to meet with the family of Michael Brown. I spoke to them not just as attorney general but as a father of a teenage son myself.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Attorney
Ferguson
My Time
Son
Teenage
Time Family Chance
General
Attorney General
Michael
Family Time Chance
Few Things
Greatly
Meet
Michael Brown
Personal Level
Spoke
Visit
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As the brother of a retired law enforcement officer, I know firsthand that our men and women in uniform perform their duties in the face of tremendous threats and significant personal risk. They put their lives on the line every day, and they often have to make split-second decisions.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Enforcement
Law Enforcement
Men And Women
Retired
Significant
Men Women Face
Tremendous
Duties
Firsthand
Women Men Face
Officer
Threats
Uniform
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It is possible, I supposed, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Law
Military
President
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Smart on Crime says if you commit violent crimes, you should go to jail, and go to jail for extended periods of time. For people who are engaged in non-violent crimes - any crimes, for that matter - we are looking for sentences that are proportionate to the conduct that you engaged in.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Commit
Engaged
Jail
Non Violent
Periods
Sentences
Crimes
Extended
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While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Oklahoma
Spite
African
African Americans
Blacks
Refused
Served
Uniform
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[I] can't actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease. Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices. The question is not when does it end, but when does it begin [..] When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Color
Issues
Practice
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Studies show that if people think that they are treated fairly by the police, that matters almost more than what the result is. If you get stopped for a traffic stop and feel that you are treated courteously and fairly, you are much more likely to accept the fact that you got a speeding ticket.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Police
Speeding
Traffic
Accept
Fairly
Matters
Likely
Result
Studies
Ticket
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Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
New York
Airplane
Breadth
Detroit
Enemy
New York City
Subway
Times Square
Attempt
Bomb
Bring
Gives
Square
System
York
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Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square ... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
New York
Airplane
Thinking
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I grew up in the Justice Department. I served 12 years as a line lawyer in the public integrity section. This department under me will not have any kind of political interference. I will not allow political interference in the Justice Department. Those who might attempt to do that will be rebuffed.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Department
Interference
Attempt
Justice Department
Section
Served
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It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Character
Differences
Indication
Integrity
Intense
Past
In The Past
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The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens - raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
American Citizens
Arms
Citizens
Foreigners
Worrying
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I think one of the things that I don't think people focus on is that there are some red states that have done some really innovative things when it comes to criminal justice reform, including on rehabilitation, reentry efforts. I think one of the things that we have seen in that regard is that you save money.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Criminal Justice
Innovative
Regard
Criminal
Efforts
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I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that we have made a great deal of progress. But there's still more we have to travel along this road so we get to the place that is consistent with our founding ideals.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Travel
African American
Attorney
Consistent
Founding
Ideals
Serving
Attorney General
Great Deal
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I think that people, despite my law enforcement background, view me as taking these consistently progressive stands, and I think that, philosophically, there is a desire to get at that person. But I think the stands I have taken are totally consistent with a person who is looking at things realistically, factually.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Consistent
Consistently
Despite
Enforcement
Law Enforcement
Taken
Thinking
Views
Background
Philosophically
Realistically
Stands
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I still think that we have a hesitance to talk about things racial. And I think we do it at our detriment. We go from incident to incident, and we have spikes in which race becomes something that we talk about, as opposed to talking about race in those less contentious times when I think we might make more progress.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Detriment
Incident
Racial
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There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me [and] directed at the president. You know, people talking about taking their country back. There's a certain racial component to this for some people. I don't think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there's a racial animus.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Country
Talking
Thinking
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Well, I think the American people have to understand that the Mexican government is committed, in a very substantial way, to eradicating the effect of the impact of the cartels on Mexico. We have - what are called vetted units down there. Units that have been vetted by our law enforcement people there, the people with whom we deal - primarily.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Committed
Enforcement
Impact
Law Enforcement
Mexican
Mexico
Units
Government Law People
American People
Effect
Primarily
Substantial
Whom
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When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia - which was inappropriate, certainly that . . . to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
People
Philadelphia
Thinking
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Some have argued that the President is required to get permission from a federal court before taking action against a United States citizen who is a senior operational leader of al Qaeda or associated forces. This is simply not accurate. 'Due process' and 'judicial process' are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Leader
President
Senior
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It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try to fix something that was never broken. There has always been a legal defense for using deadly force if - and the 'if' is important - if no safe retreat is available. But we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the common sense and age-old requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat, outside their home, if they can do so safely.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
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Self
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