Eric Holder Quotes

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• Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear…
• If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label,
• We are not programmed to bury our kids.
• Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.
• I don't have any intention of resigning.
• I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.
• I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.
• I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man,
• When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to…
• Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This…
• Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to…
• There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me [and] directed at the president. You know, people talking about taking…
• Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.
• Good luck with your asparagus.
• No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law.
• It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of…
• Some have argued that the President is required to get permission from a federal court before taking action against a United States citizen who is…
• Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we,…
• I think that people, despite my law enforcement background, view me as taking these consistently progressive stands, and I think that, philosophically, there is a…
• You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.

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