Eric Holder Quotes

The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents.

Eric Holder

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• Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • May
  • Power
  • Nature

• I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • World
  • Change
  • Most

• Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Change
  • Single
  • Motherhood

• I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Change
  • Challenge

• I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Growing
  • Responsibility
  • Moving

• All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Time
  • Change
  • Sea

• At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Change

• I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Change

• If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • World
  • Change
  • Idea

• I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Remember
  • Reading
  • Responsibility

• He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Morning

• We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Change
  • Rules
  • Results

• I hope to see an integrated solution created to deal with both the local pollution problem and the global climate change problem.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Problem

• Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Change
  • Care
  • Take Care

• Hungry people are always looking for more. More things to do. More to learn. More responsibility to take on.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Responsibility

• The greater the power, the greater the responsibility in its exercise.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Exercise

• Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Responsibility
  • Taken
  • Office

• You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.

  

  Richard M. Nixon
  • Problem
  • Whole
  • Appearing

• As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Different

• You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim that a photograph is a picture of a horse or a cow, but it is the sentence that expresses the claim, which is true or false, not the photograph.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Picture
  • Photograph
  • False

• The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Change
  • Responsibility
  • Ideals