Attorney general Quotes · Page 2

My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff…

— Bob McDonnell

Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.

— Thomas Perez

I see the job of attorney general as the single most important legal office in the country when you can't trust the…

— Zephyr Teachout

Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.

— Pam Bondi

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

— Kelly Ayotte

I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so…

— John McCain

I was an assistant U.S. attorney. I was the associate attorney general of the United States, third-ranking official under Ronald Reagan.

— Rudy Giuliani

If I were attorney general in Kansas in 1953, I would not have defended a Kansas statute that put in place separate-but-equal facilities.

— Eric Holder

Normally it wouldn't be a good thing for an attorney general to have a professional defamer as a brother-in-law. But I am…

— Michael Bryant

I'm not against the government. I'm against this ever-expanding government that doesn't know its limits. And that's how I see the role…

— Alan Wilson

The constitutional and political importance of the law office of the Attorney General is such that you can't just job share, and…

— Suella Braverman

Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting…

— James Whistler

The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has…

— Edwidge Danticat

Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his…

— Edwin Meese

William Barr has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate four times, has served two U.S. presidents, and has proven himself to be…

— Mike Braun

Attorney General John Ashcroft is in intensive care. He's suffering from a severe case of pancreatitis, which they can't really figure out…

— Bill Maher

This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would…

— Strom Thurmond

One of the really powerful things that's going on in this country right now in 2017 is watching attorney generals like Eric…

— Donald Trump

[James Comey] should have gone to the Public Integrity section and said 'What do you folks think.' It's a little bit of…

— William Weld

“Even before there was reason to suspect Sally Yates, they suspected her. The transition report said Trump wouldn’t like the fifty-six-year-old Atlanta-born…

— Michael Wolff

What I see in Washington reminds me of what I saw in Montgomery when I was first elected Alabama's Attorney General. In…

— Luther Strange

The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community. We are proud…

— Al Sharpton

If Barr wants to keep defending Trump, he should take a page from one of his predecessors, Henry Stanbery, who stepped down…

— Neal Katyal

The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as…

— Robert Hughes

“Furthermore, after the Justice Department targeted a Fox News reporter for a criminal investigation under the Espionage Act, in a matter involving…

— Andrew McCarthy

“Peter, naomba nitubu kosa. Mimi si mtoto wa Mwanasheria Mkuu wa Serikali. Ni mtoto wa Rais wa Meksiko. Lisa ni mtoto wa…

— Enock Maregesi

“On the labour front in 1919 there was an unprecedented number of strikes involving many millions of workers. One of the lager…

— E.L. Doctorow

“I sat at a table in my shadowy kitchen, staring down a bottle of Boone's Farm Hard Lemonade, when a magic fluctuation…

— Ilona Andrews

“Kilometa mbili na ushei kidogo kutoka katika sanamu la Yesu Mtoto liitwalo Niñopa, katika Kanisa la Parokia ya Manispaa ya Xochimilco ('Sochimiliko')…

— Enock Maregesi

“The nation’s Charters of Freedom were also evacuated from the capital. The attorney general ruled that the Library of Congress had the…

— Garrett M. Graff

On my first day in office as Ohio attorney general, I authorized Ohio to join the multistate lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of…

— Mike DeWine

I will not vote in favor of Senator Sessions' nomination for attorney general.

— Amy Klobuchar

Our country is fortunate to have Bill Barr, a man of integrity who has served two U.S. Presidents, as our Attorney General.

— Mike Braun

Kentuckians can see how I've lived my values by looking at my priorities as attorney general.

— Andy Beshear

My job as attorney general has been, in regard to guns, to have oversight in regard to concealed-carry licenses.

— Mike DeWine

I served as Attorney General John Ashcroft's chief adviser on immigration law at the U.S. Department of Justice during 2001-03.

— Kris Kobach

When I was attorney general, we had the strongest public integrity unit in the country.

— Luther Strange

[Possible Attorney General] that's a discussion I'd like to have with [Donald Trump].

— George Stephanopoulos

The Attorney General must identify threats to Illinoisans' financial security and take action to protect people.

— Lisa Madigan

I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece.

— Edwin Meese