Eric Holder Quotes
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I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.
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It is possible, I supposed, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States.
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History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.
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Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.
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When it comes to police officers, I have concerns about the training that they receive. This whole notion of implicit bias, looking at people and having stereotypical reactions to them on the basis of their ethnicity.
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I'm a 21st century guy, secure in who I am.
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If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label.
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Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square ... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.
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I look forward to working with the NRA to come up with ways in which we can use common sense approaches to reduce the level of violence that we see - in our streets, and make the American people as safe as they possibly can be.
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Studies show that if people think that they are treated fairly by the police, that matters almost more than what the result is. If you get stopped for a traffic stop and feel that you are treated courteously and fairly, you are much more likely to accept the fact that you got a speeding ticket.
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No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law.
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I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.
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I'm a hard headed lawyer.
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You keep your eyes on the prize, you try to do what's right, and eventually, you'll reach your goal.
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I was raised - professionally - in the Public Integrity Section. I started in 1976, stayed there for 12 years. It was formed after Watergate by then-head of the Criminal Division Dick Thornburgh, who ultimately became Attorney General.
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I'll leave here with my head held high and with confidence that history will judge my time here.
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I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.
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I'm attorney general of the United States. I will not stand for - I will not allow people to take away that which people gave their lives to give, and that is the ability for the American people to vote.
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The vast majority of law enforcement officers conduct themselves in really honorable, appropriate ways.