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Certainly, I don't think I can ever be accused of being soft on crime.
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Accused
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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Broken
Accountable
Demanding
Held
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Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn't ideological; it's good law enforcement.
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Corporate
Enforcement
Ideological
Law Enforcement
Wrongdoing
Accountable
Holding
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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Confidence
Trust
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Public
Criminal
Operate
System
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We must never take the public's trust for granted - our predecessors worked hard to earn it, and it is our responsibility to continually earn that trust.
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Trust
Granted
Predecessors
Responsibility
Continually
Earn
Never Take
Worked
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Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
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Behalf
Committed
Believe Will Never
Corporation
Criminal
Incorrectly
Unpunished
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Restoring a person's ability to achieve success when they leave the prison walls promotes public safety, builds our economy and, most importantly, is the right thing to do.
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Achieve
Economy
Prison
Public Safety
Restoring
Right Thing
Safety
Builds
Importantly
The Right Thing
Walls
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I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the President.
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Legal
Attorney
Obligation
Attorney General
Deputy
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The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons could accommodate in their own facilities.
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Accommodate
Faster
Population
Rate
Bureau
Facilities
Prisons
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The damage caused by corruption is just as real in Angola and Azerbaijan as it is in Atlanta and Albuquerque, and it's our obligation to advance the rule of law wherever our laws apply.
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Angola
Atlanta
Damage
Obligation
Rule Of Law
Caused
Advance
Apply
Rule
Wherever
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My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts.
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Consideration
Department
All The Facts
Department Of Justice
Ensure
Informed
Legally
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At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims, to vigorously pursue misconduct, to seek justice in all its forms - depends on public confidence in the institutions we represent.
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Department
Misconduct
Pursue
Advocate
Forms
Department Of Justice
Fulfill
Seek
Responsibilities
Victims
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At D.O.J., we don't want to go after the corporate wrongdoers simply as an end unto itself; we want to decrease the amount of corporate wrongdoing that happens in the first place. We want to restore and help protect the corporate culture of responsibility.
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Amount
Corporate
Decrease
Protect
Responsibility
Wrongdoing
Simply
First Place
Restore
Unto
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As I've seen over and over again during my career, the best way to deter individual conduct is the threat of going to jail. That's what truly changes behavior. That's what changes the calculus as employees and executives decide whether to participate in an illegal scheme.
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Best Way
Calculus
Executives
Illegal
Jail
Deter
Employees
Scheme
Participate
Truly
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At the Justice Department, we have no greater obligation than ensuring all people are treated equally under the law, and Americans must know that we will vigorously pursue criminal activity regardless of whether the crime is committed on a street corner or in a corner office.
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Activity
Committed
Crime
Department
Greater
Obligation
Office
Pursue
All People
Corner
Ensuring
Equally
Justice Department
Regardless
Street Corner
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At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.
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Corny
Dangerous
Law
Lengthy
Long Time
Prosecutor
Responsibility
Risk
Sole
Time Society Believe
Career
Holding
Seek
Sentence
Very Long Time
Violate
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