Attorney General Quotes
66 quotes by 48 authors
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As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.
— Kelly Ayotte
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It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe…
— Joe Biden
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You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the…
— Joe Biden
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My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.
— Bob McDonnell
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This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would interpose the Government…
— Strom Thurmond
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The power granted the Attorney General to intervene in all equal-protection-of-the-law cases is extremely broad and dangerous. Choices made by the Attorney General could follow…
— John Sparkman
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The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty.
— Bob Butterworth
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The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes,…
— Jamie Gorelick
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Maybe when I'm done being an attorney general I'll go out and do something that will really benefit people's lives and become a USANA distributor.
— Mark Shurtleff
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I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days.
— Alberto Gonzales
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You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.
— Charlie Crist
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As attorney general, Ive had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important…
— Ben Chandler
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As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is…
— Scott Harshbarger
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If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label,
— Eric Holder
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I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man,
— Eric Holder
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The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let…
— Harold H. Greene
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The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure…
— Dick Thornburgh
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Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his legal innovations was…
— Edwin Meese
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As a former U.S. attorney general under President Reagan, and a former Ohio secretary of state, we would like to say something that might strike…
— Edwin Meese
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I am asking my Attorney General to create a special unit of federal prosecutors and leading state attorneys general to expand our investigations into the…
— Barack Obama
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