Best Attorney General Quotes
66 Attorney General quotes by 46 unique authors
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People used to ask me: 'Well, was it the power that attracted you to Bill Clinton?' And I said, well, how much power do you…
— Gennifer Flowers
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Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence…
— John Cornyn
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If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.
— Kelly Ayotte
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As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina.
— Michael Emerson
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Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics…
— James Whistler
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I am not saying I will vote against John Ashcroft because he is pro-life, .. But let me say if someone was nominated for attorney…
— Charles Schumer
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Attorney General John Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as the Torquemada of American law. Tomás de Torquemada...was largely responsible for...[the] torture and the…
— Walter Cronkite
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I was approached by friends who encouraged me to run for an open seat - attorney general of Michigan. It was a big risk.
— Jennifer Granholm
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The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of…
— Harold H. Greene
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I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the…
— Judy Holliday
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If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us…
— Jon Stewart
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Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can…
— Jesse Ventura
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That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their…
— Charles Dickens
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It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed me to enforce the Civil Rights Act…
— Thomas Perez
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Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
— Thomas Perez
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I agree with President Obama and Attorney General Holder that we need to reform our criminal sentencing laws.
— Raul Labrador
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I fully support Attorney General Cuccinelli and his efforts in challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision in the health care legislation, and I…
— Robert Hurt
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Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.
— Eric Holder
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The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents.
— Eric Holder
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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
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When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we…
— Barack Obama
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We are engaged in immediate conversations with the White House on deliberations over a successor whom we hope will continue in the general direction of…
— Al Sharpton
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The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community. We are proud that he has…
— Al Sharpton
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Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions…
— Barbara Mikulski
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I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I…
— Alexander Henry
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