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" A license to practice law is not a license to violate it. "

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" To the extent residency preferences prevent families and senior citizens from purchasing homes because of race, ethnicity or color, the preferences violate federal law and cannot be tolerated. "

" It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are. "

" When suspicion and hostility is allowed to fester, it can erupt into unrest. "

" Every American expects and deserves the protection of law enforcement that is effective, responsive, respectful and, most importantly, constitutional. "

Law Enforcement

" Whether it is tribalism, racism, xenophobia, or anti-Muslim backlash we're talking about, we spend so much time and energy fighting ways to divide ourselves from others. "

" He could have made a difference. He could have brought real jobs and development to hard working communities that need and deserve those resources. Instead, William Boyland, Jr. worked to glorify one person, and that was himself. "

" In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead, as alleged, Grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it. In so doing, he turned his back on every oath he had ever taken. "

" We don't always choose moments. You know, sometimes they choose us. "

" We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations. "

" The 'Ndrangheta is an exceptionally dangerous, sophisticated and insidious criminal organization, with tentacles stretching from Italy to countries around the world. "

" Instead of turning away from our neighbors, our friends, our colleagues, let us instead learn from our history and avoid repeating the mistakes of our past. "

" We have determined as a society, as a country, as a people, that the incarceration and the supervision and the specific fines for a particular crime are that person's debt to society. "

" Members of organized crime continue to exploit their victims the old-fashioned way - through violence, threats and intimidation. As law enforcement has so successfully done before, we will employ our own time-tested techniques to bring them to justice to account for their crimes. "

" I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty. "

" Housing programs designed to help young families and senior citizens purchase homes should be available to people of all races, including African Americans. "

" Let me say that if the political arena is your choice as you work to keep our democracy strong and our essential freedoms accessible for all, then that is what you should do, and I salute you. We need champions in all walks of our civic discourse. "

" Let us not act out of fear and misunderstanding, but out of the values of inclusion, diversity, and regard for all that make our country great. "

" Particularly over the last few decades, technological innovation has offered opportunities to bring people and nations together - but it has also created significant new challenges to law enforcement. "

" After all we have been through, blacks and other minorities deserve to be protected, as anyone else. "

" Russell Defreitas plotted to commit a terrorist attack that he hoped would rival 9/11. "

" Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image. "

" Criminal conduct by police officers, federal agents, and their confederates cannot be tolerated and will be met with the full force of the law. "

Police Officers

" We don't talk about the timing of open matters, but I certainly agree with the FBI director that in every investigation, no matter whom it involves, we are thorough, we are fair, we are efficient, and we move through the facts and the evidence and come to the conclusions that are called upon. "

" The good in this world far outweighs the evil. Our common humanity transcends our differences, and our most effective response to terror is compassion, it's unity, and it's love. "

" Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers. "

" The American people must be able to trust that their courts and law enforcement will uphold, protect, and defend their constitutional rights. "

" The sentence imposed on Abdul Kadir sends a powerful and clear message. We will bring to justice those who plot to attack the United States of America. "

" What we must not do - what we must never do - is turn on our neighbors, our family members, our fellow Americans, for something they cannot control, and deny what makes them human. "

" Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight. "