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" Although the attorney general is a part of the president's team, you're really separate and apart. You have a special responsibility as the nation's chief law enforcement officer. There has to be a distance that you keep - between this department and the White House. "

" Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job. "

" Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land - is among the gravest that government leaders can face. "

" As the brother of a retired law enforcement officer, I know firsthand that our men and women in uniform perform their duties in the face of tremendous threats and significant personal risk. They put their lives on the line every day, and they often have to make split-second decisions. "

" Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets. "

" Displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive. "

" Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. "

" Enforcement priorities and arrest patterns must not lead to disparate treatment under the law, even if such treatment is unintended. And police forces should reflect the diversity of the communities they serve. "

" Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will not be the last. The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Constitution has meaning for all communities. "

" 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. "

" History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson. "

" I actually think that the dotting of the i's and the crossing of the t's is what separates the United States, the United Kingdom, our allies, from those who we are fighting. "

" I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us. "

" I am the attorney general of the United States, but I am also a black man. "

" I'd like to continue being involved with issues that animated my time as attorney general - criminal-justice reform and civil rights especially. I don't just want to give speeches; I'd like to involve myself in this work in a systematic way. "

" 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. "

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" I don't have any intention of resigning. "

" 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. "

" If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label. "

" I grew up in the Justice Department. I served 12 years as a line lawyer in the public integrity section. This department under me will not have any kind of political interference. I will not allow political interference in the Justice Department. Those who might attempt to do that will be rebuffed. "

" I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights Movement how the department can - and must - always be a force for that which is right. "

" 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 of violence that we see - in our streets, and make the American people as safe as they possibly can be. "

" I'm a 21st-century guy, secure in who I am. "

" I'm a hard headed lawyer. "

" I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate. "

" I'm attorney general of the United States. I will not stand for - I will not allow people to take away that which people gave their lives to give, and that is the ability for the American people to vote. "

" I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis. "

" In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost measure what kind of Justice Department you have by what kind of civil rights division that you have. "

" In January 2013, I told the people in the Justice Department after the re-election that I wanted to focus on reforming the federal criminal justice system. I made an announcement in August of that year in San Francisco, when we rolled out the Smart on Crime initiative. "

" I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that we have made a great deal of progress. But there's still more we have to travel along this road so we get to the place that is consistent with our founding ideals. "

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