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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I'm vitally interested in cyber crime and in preparing law enforcement for a time when crime is international in its origins and its consequences.
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Police and prosecutors and the courts have got to talk together.
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One of the most important parts of my life has been community.
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I just don't like greedy, indifferent, selfish lawyers. And there are not that many of them.
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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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Juveniles as well as adults need to know they're going to be punished for their violent acts.
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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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A cop by themselves on every corner is not going to make that much difference.
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The first job I ever had in my life was in the Dade County Sheriff's Office in the Identification Bureau in the summer that I graduated from high school and was getting ready to go to college.
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I think that affirmative action programs can be very important.
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I want to do what I can to make the law make sense to citizens and businesses alike. I want the laws to assist them in worthwhile endeavors, not to stand as bureaucratic obstacles.
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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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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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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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Each generation looks to its children to keep our society moving and to make life better.
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I get accused of being a social worker every now and then.
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There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts.
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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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Schools can do extraordinary things given the chance; teachers can do remarkable things if we eliminate the paperwork that sometimes binds them and give them a chance to really teach in our schools.
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I think our young people are our most precious possession.
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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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It's fine to get paid and get a big verdict, but to go out and represent people, sometimes in unglamorous ways, is really what lawyering is all about.
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I love good and caring lawyers who are advocates, who are defenders, who are problem-solvers, and who are peacemakers.