Eric Holder Quotes
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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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History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.
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As the brother of a retired law enforcement officer, I know firsthand that our men and women in uniform perform their duties in the face of tremendous threats and significant personal risk. They put their lives on the line every day, and they often have to make split-second decisions.
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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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At a time when we must seek to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the local community, I am deeply concerned that the deployment of military equipment and vehicles sends a conflicting message.
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We must stand our ground to ensure that our laws reduce violence and take a hard look at laws that contribute to more violence than they prevent.
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Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.
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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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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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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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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 21st century guy, secure in who I am.
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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'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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The vast majority of law enforcement officers conduct themselves in really honorable, appropriate ways.
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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.