Janet Reno Quotes
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I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.
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Each generation looks to its children to keep our society moving and to make life better.
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In 1960, I earned my Chemistry Degree from Cornell University.
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At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.
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What good is telling America's children that they will have equal opportunity for education if they don't have the skills that will even get them to the point of benefiting from education, because they didn't have the child care, the health care that would enable them to grow as strong and constructive human beings?
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We must honor, protect and support our police officers and their families every day of the year.
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I think police officers can work with social workers and public health nurses to do so much in terms of addressing the problem of American families, of children in American families as a whole, and giving them an opportunity to get off to a fresh start, to become self-sufficient, to lead safe, constructive lives.
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The president really shouldn't be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take.
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Juveniles as well as adults need to know they're going to be punished for their violent acts.
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I think, clearly, where you have a situation in which the Solicitor General tells me, 'I cannot in good faith argue a certainly legal position,' and if the president told us to argue that position, we would have to tell him, 'No, we can't do that, Mr. President.'
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Stereotypes should never influence policy or public opinion.
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I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.
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Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it.
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I'm humbled by the honor that President Clinton has done me in nominatinq me as Attorney General of the United States, and I'm going to do my very best to deserve his confidence.
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It helps to know how to lose. You know it is not the end of the world, and you pick yourself up and move ahead.
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I think our young people are our most precious possession.
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This is a beautiful country. Each of us has a favorite river, a mountain, just a patch of sky for some of us. I want to use the law to make sure that the waters, the land, and the skies of this nation are protected.
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One of the problems in America is that everybody focuses on their own narrow little bit of the problem without connecting punishment and prevention together, without connecting the schools and the police together, without connecting the pediatricians and the social workers together.
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There may sometimes be a mistake, but I think that the citizens of America who are sworn to uphold their duty in a jury setting are going to try to do their best to do that regardless of the consequences.
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We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.
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We've got to understand that the ages of zero to three are the most formative years of a person's life, the time they learn the concept of reward and punishment and develop a conscience, and that 50 percent of all learned human response is learned in the first year of life.
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We must try to understand the true weight of law enforcement officers' burdens.
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What makes our country unique is its commitment to being open, to making its leaders accountable.
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If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.