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" 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. "

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" While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did. "

Eric Holder

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" 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'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. "

" The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws. "

" I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course. "

Eric Holder

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

" I think one of the things that I don't think people focus on is that there are some red states that have done some really innovative things when it comes to criminal justice reform, including on rehabilitation, reentry efforts. I think one of the things that we have seen in that regard is that you save money. "

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

" 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. "

" Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad. "

" The vast majority of law enforcement officers conduct themselves in really honorable, appropriate ways. "

" 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. "

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

" The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents. "

" There are a whole variety of reasons I want to be attorney general, a whole variety of things that I do as attorney general that go beyond national security. "

Eric Holder

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" I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons. "

" I was raised - professionally - in the Public Integrity Section. I started in 1976, stayed there for 12 years. It was formed after Watergate by then-head of the Criminal Division Dick Thornburgh, who ultimately became Attorney General. "

" Those who peacefully gather to express sympathy for the family of Michael Brown must have their rights respected at all times. And journalists must not be harassed or prevented from covering a story that needs to be told. "

" People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we've not engaged in. "

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

" This is going to be a very transparent Justice Department. But I'm not gonna sacrifice the safety of the American people or our ability to protect the American homeland. "

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

Eric Holder

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" The full resources of the Department of Justice have been committed to the investigation into Michael Brown's death. "

" One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation. "

" 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. "

" I urge the citizens of Ferguson who have been peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to join with law enforcement in condemning the actions of looters, vandals and others seeking to inflame tensions and sow discord. "

" 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. "

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

Eric Holder

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