Eric Holder Quotes
- Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader…
- The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their…
- The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.
- One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head…
- I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe,…
- Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies.
- 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.
- 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…
- I'm a 21st-century guy, secure in who I am.
- I'm a hard headed lawyer.
- It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late…
- One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on…
- Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should…
- People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they will be characterized in a way that's not fair.…
- It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.
- Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.
- The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents.
- It is the thing that keeps me up at night - the notion that you have individuals in the United States who are looking at…
- 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…
- I still think that we have a hesitance to talk about things racial. And I think we do it at our detriment. We go from…