Department Quote by Jeff Sessions

I think the Justice Department needs to be the final protector of the people of the United States of America.

— Sheila Jackson Lee

This is a time when the protections of Americans' liberties are directly at risk, as are the checks and balances that have served to…

— Patrick Leahy

We can give our intelligence and law enforcement community the powers they need to track down and take out terrorists without undermining our commitment…

— Barack Obama

We must protect the very things that make America so special - most certainly including our civil liberties. But we cannot do so without…

— Mike Pompeo

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

— Joseph Joubert

Our Constitution is a mighty document, but the rights it secures require constant vigilance - and the unwavering voices of justices who dissent against…

— Jonathan Capehart

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

— Aldous Huxley

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.

— James Monroe

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government arrest suspected…

— Robert M. La Follette, Sr

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.

— Larry Craig

We have to remind the people: Congress has the constitutional obligation and public responsibility to oversee these issues and the Department of Justice's operations.

— Sibel Edmonds

We depend on the Supreme Court to uphold the integrity of our government.

— Frank Lautenberg