Quotes by William Barr - Page 2

The DOJ has long considered the SEC an indispensable partner in protecting markets and investors, promoting lawful commerce around the world, and deterring misconduct.
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Commerce
Indispensable
Investors
Misconduct
Lawful
Partner
Protecting
Sec
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We believe that when technology providers deploy encryption in their products, services, and platforms they need to maintain an appropriate mechanism for lawful access.
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Technology
Access
Appropriate
Encryption
Mechanism
Platforms
Products
Providers
Deploy
Lawful
Maintain
Services
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Cases like Power Traders Press are just as important as cases like Mobile TeleSystems. In my view, our best cases are those that yield tangible results for everyday people.
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Cases
Everyday
Tangible
Yield
Everyday People
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American Indian and Alaska Native people suffer from unacceptable and disproportionately high levels of violence, which can have lasting impacts on families and communities.
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Alaska
Lasting
Levels
Native
Disproportionately
Impacts
Suffer
Unacceptable
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At any one time, there are approximately 1.2 million fugitives at large in the United States - it is likely that approximately half a million of these are dangerous fugitives.
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One Time
Approximately
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The Marshals were founded when our nation was founded and from the earliest period, one of their key tasks has been apprehension. They are our fugitive enforcers in this country.
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Apprehension
Fugitive
Tasks
Earliest
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To all my colleagues at the Department of Justice, let me say that it is a privilege to serve with you. I will do all I can to support your work in advancing the cause of justice.
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Advancing
Colleagues
Department
Privilege
Cause
Department Of Justice
Serve
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Everyone dies, and I am not, you know, I don't believe in the Homeric idea that, you know, immortality comes by, you know, having odes sung about you over the centuries, you know?
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Immortality
Centuries
Sung
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The central genius of the American Constitution lies in its use of structure to protect individual liberty. It does not rely solely, or even primarily, on grants of substantive rights.
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Grants
Individual Liberty
Rely
Primarily
Solely
Substantive
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In my view, the government has ample justification to inquire about citizenship status on the census and could plainly provide rationales for doing so that would satisfy the Supreme Court.
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Census
Justification
Supreme
Supreme Court
Ample
Inquire
Plainly
Satisfy
Status
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It was once understood that resistance is a serious crime because it necessarily triggers an escalation of violence that endangers the life not only of the police office, but also the suspect.
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Escalation
Resistance
Triggers
Suspect
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A Supreme Court justice must convince at least four colleagues to bind the federal government nationwide, whereas a district court judge issuing a nationwide injunction needn't convince anyone.
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Colleagues
Convince
Federal Government
Supreme
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Justice
Bind
District
Injunction
Nationwide
Whereas
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I believe deeply that the first duty of government is providing for the personal security of its citizens. Therefore I would naturally place the highest priority on strengthening law enforcement.
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Enforcement
Law Enforcement
Providing
Strengthening
Government Believe I Believe
Highest Priority
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Our greatest strength in our fight for justice is our people - the thousands of men and women who have dedicated their careers, often at great personal sacrifice, to working for justice in America.
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Careers
Dedicated
Men And Women
Sacrifice
Strength Men Women
Strength Women Men
Greatest Strength
Our People
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Proponents of nationwide injunctions argue that they are necessary to ensure that the law is uniform throughout the country. But the federal judiciary wasn't made to produce instant legal uniformity.
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Legal
Instant
Judiciary
Produce
Ensure
Federal
Nationwide
Throughout
Uniform
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Police officers must act quickly to seize wrongdoers and obtain evidence while protecting themselves and bystanders. It is easy to second-guess their search-and-seizure decisions in a secure courtroom.
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Courtroom
Evidence
Officers
Secure
Obtain
Police Officers
Protecting
Second-Guess
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The imperative of protecting religious freedom was not just a nod in the direction of piety. It reflects the Framers' belief that religion was indispensable to sustaining our free system of government.
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Framers
Indispensable
Piety
Religious Freedom
Sustaining
Freedom Religion Government
Imperative
Nod
Protecting
Reflects
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Having served as both attorney general and deputy attorney general in the Justice Department, I had responsibility for supervising the FBI, working on virtually a daily basis with its senior leadership.
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Leadership
Attorney
Department
Fbi
Senior
Attorney General
Basis
Daily
Daily Basis
Deputy
Justice Department
Served
Virtually
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As individuals and as a nation we have become dependent on a vast digital infrastructure. That, in turn, has made us vulnerable to cybercriminals and foreign adversaries that target that infrastructure.
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Adversaries
Dependent
Infrastructure
Target
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Freedom of religion requires not only freeing religion from undue government regulation and interference. It also requires freeing religion from discrimination and from vile acts of hatred and persecution.
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Discrimination
Freedom Of Religion
Government Regulation
Interference
Persecution
Regulation
Acts
Freedom Religion Government
Vile
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Valor' is a word we don't commonly hear. People can show courage and bravery confronting many different challenges in life. But 'valor' connotes willingly putting oneself in mortal danger to protect others.
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Courage
Bravery
Challenges
Confronting
Danger
Different
Oneself
Protect
Valor
Show
Commonly
Hear
Hear People
Word
Mortal
Putting
Willingly
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The responsibility of the Department of Justice, when it comes to law enforcement, is to determine whether crimes have been committed and to prosecute those crimes under the principles of federal prosecution.
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Department
Determine
Enforcement
Law Enforcement
Prosecution
Crimes
Department Of Justice
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The Great Migration changed American history not just for the migrants but for all of us. It made possible American cultural milestones like the Harlem Renaissance, Chicago blues, and Motown, just to name a few.
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History
American History
Changed
Chicago
Harlem
Migration
Motown
Renaissance
American
Name
Blues
Possible
Cultural
Few
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While the FBI carries out investigative work, the responsibility for supervising, directing and ultimately determining the resolution of investigations is solely the province of the Justice Department's prosecutors.
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Department
Fbi
Resolution
Carries
Determining
Directing
Investigations
Prosecutors
Province
Solely
Ultimately
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The core civil liberty that underpins our American criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence. Every person enjoys this presumption long before the commencement of any investigation or official proceeding.
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Commencement
Core
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Innocence
Investigation
Liberty
Presumption
Civil
Civil Liberty
Criminal
Official
System
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How can it be that the homosexual movement, at one or two percent of the population, gets treated with such solicitude while the Catholic population, which is over a quarter of the country, is given the back of the hand?
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Catholic
Homosexual
Population
One Or Two
Quarter
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We know that the American people are only safe because our law enforcement officers face danger. We can only rest easy because they never rest. And we can only dwell in peace because they stand between us and the danger.
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Peace
Danger
Easy
Enforcement
Law
Law Enforcement
Officers
Safe
Stand
Face
American People
Rest
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We humans have a powerful instinct to flee from peril. It takes a special kind of courage, a deep sense of duty, and extraordinary character to overcome these impulses and - for the sake of others - to run toward the danger.
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Danger
Instinct
Sake
Overcome
Flee
Impulses
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As we look back over the sweep of American history, it has been the American Presidency that has best fulfilled the vision of the Founders. It has brought to our Republic a dynamism and effectiveness that other democracies have lacked.
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American History
Dynamism
Effectiveness
Founders
Fulfilled
Presidency
Republic
Sweep
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Every Medal of Valor recipient has confronted life-threatening danger. Each had their fight-or-flight moment. But each one stood their ground for our safety. We hold them up as examples to other first responders - and to all Americans.
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Danger
Medal
Safety
Valor
All Americans
Confronted
Each
Each One
Examples
Ground
Hold
Life-Threatening
Moment
Recipient
Responders
Stood
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In so many areas, it is critical to our Nation's future that we restore and preserve in their full vigor our Founding principles. Not the least of these is the Framers' vision of a strong, independent Executive, chosen by the country as a whole.
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Chosen
Founding
Vigor
Executive
Preserve
Restore
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There are many factors that affect crime rates. But we recognize that the main reason crime has decreased has always been - and always will be - the dangerous and stressful work done by state and local law enforcement officers day in and day out.
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Enforcement
Factors
Law Enforcement
Officers
Stressful
Work Done Always
Affect
Work Law Day
Work Always Done
Main Reason
Rates
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An attorney general's duty is to render her opinion and honest advice; she cannot set herself up as a judge overruling the president's decision. The president need not 'convince' his subordinate that his decision reflects the best view of the law.
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Attorney
Convince
Herself
Reflects
Render
Subordinate
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Established in 2001, the Medal of Valor is our nation's highest public safety award. Officers across the nation are nominated by their peers, but only a handful are selected to receive this honor. Traditionally, this process occurs only once a year.
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Handful
Medal
Officers
Peers
Public Safety
Safety
Selected
Valor
Award
Established
Nominated
Occurs
Once A Year
Only A Handful
Receive
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We are a pluralistic Nation composed of very distinct groups, each bound together by ethnicity, race, or religion - each group proud of its identity and committed to its faith and traditions. Yet despite these differences, we can be bound together into a broader community.
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Differences
Ethnicity
Broader
Composed
Distinct
Pluralistic
Traditions
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The consensus for a strong, independent Executive arose from the Framers' experience in the Revolution and under the Articles of Confederation. They had seen that the War had almost been lost and was a bumbling enterprise because of the lack of strong Executive leadership.
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Leadership
Articles
Confederation
Consensus
Enterprise
Framers
Independent
Revolution
Executive
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In our system of government, the Supreme Court ultimately decides on the constitutionality of laws passed by Congress or of presidential actions. When their actions are challenged, both Congress and the president are entitled to have their positions forcefully advocated in court.
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Entitled
Presidential
Supreme
Supreme Court
Challenged
Positions
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I mean, republics have fallen because of Praetorian Guard mentality where government officials get very arrogant, they identify the national interest with their own political preferences and they feel that anyone who has a different opinion, you know, is somehow an enemy of the state.
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Government
Arrogant
Different
Enemy
Fallen
Government Officials
Mentality
Officials
Opinion
Anyone
Guard
Identify
National
National Interest
Preferences
Republics
Somehow
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The U.S. Attorneys who comprise the Attorney General's Advisory Committee play a critical role in carrying out the Department of Justice's important work, including its efforts to reduce violent crime, combat the opioid crisis, protect the most vulnerable, and enforce the rule of law.
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Advisory
Attorney
Combat
Crime
Department
Important Work
Including
Protect
Rule Of Law
General
Carrying
Committee
Efforts
Enforce
Reduce
Role
Rule
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From my perspective the idea of resisting a democratically elected president and basically throwing everything at him and, you know, really changing the norms on the grounds that we have to stop this president, that is where the shredding of our norms and our institutions is occurring.
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Resisting
Throwing
Democratically
Grounds
Norms
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I deeply admire the American Presidency as a political and constitutional institution. I believe it is, one of the great, and remarkable innovations in our Constitution, and has been one of the most successful features of the Constitution in protecting the liberties of the American people.
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Features
Presidency
Remarkable
Great Believe I Believe
American People
Constitutional
Innovations
Institution
Liberties
Protecting
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A key initiative that was launched was Project Triggerlock, which targeted for federal prosecution violent felons who illegally possessed guns. It used our very strong federal gun laws to put those people away for a long period of time, a resolution that we couldn't get from many of the state systems.
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Gun
Initiative
Possessed
Prosecution
Resolution
Time Long People
Gun Laws
Long Period
Systems
Targeted
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In a pluralistic society like ours, I think the ability to resist hate comes from cultivating a civil society that, on the one hand, nurtures the freedom of each group to pursue their faith and distinctive way of life, while, at the same time, fostering the ties that bind us together into a genuine broader community.
William Barr /
Civil Society
Cultivating
Distinctive
Fostering
Genuine
Pursue
Ties
Life Time Faith
Life Faith Freedom
Bind
Broader
Life Faith Time
Civil
Group
Ours
Pluralistic
Same Time
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Nationwide injunctions undermine the democratic process, depart from history and tradition, violate constitutional principles, and impede sound judicial administration, all at the cost of public confidence in our institutions and particularly in our courts as apolitical decision-makers dispassionately applying objective law.
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Decision Makers
Democratic Process
Judicial
Constitutional
Courts
Depart
Nationwide
Objective
Undermine
Violate
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I think of the various forms of anti-Semitism as very much like different kinds of cancer. A healthy body with a strong immune system can have success in preventing cancers from emerging and spreading. But if the immune system weakens cancer can emerge. Some might be localized. But others can rapidly metastasize and become systematic.
William Barr /
Anti Semitism
Different Kinds
Immune
Preventing
Systematic
Cancers
Emerge
Rapidly
Spreading
Weakens
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While we should not hesitate to deploy encryption to protect ourselves from cybercriminals, this should not be done in a way that eviscerates society's ability to defend itself against other types of criminal threats. In other words, making our virtual world more secure should not come at the expense of making us more vulnerable in the real world.
William Barr /
Encryption
Real World
Secure
Vulnerable
Criminal
Defend
Deploy
Expense
Hesitate
In Other Words
The Real World
Threats
Types
Virtual
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