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" 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. "
Eric Holder
Color
Understand
Streets
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" I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe. "
Eric Holder
Tools
Think
Respect
" Displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive. "
Eric Holder
Force
Response
Peaceful
" I'm a hard headed lawyer. "
Eric Holder
Hard
Headed
Lawyer
" 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. "
Eric Holder
People
Crime
Focus
" 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. "
Eric Holder
Stand
American
Will
" 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
Service
Father
Loved
" Studies show that if people think that they are treated fairly by the police, that matters almost more than what the result is. If you get stopped for a traffic stop and feel that you are treated courteously and fairly, you are much more likely to accept the fact that you got a speeding ticket. "
Eric Holder
Feel
Police
You
" The vast majority of law enforcement officers conduct themselves in really honorable, appropriate ways. "
Eric Holder
Law
Honorable
Ways
" You keep your eyes on the prize, you try to do what's right, and eventually, you'll reach your goal. "
Eric Holder
Goal
You
Eyes
" I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us. "
Eric Holder
Law
Death
Death Penalty
" You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there. "
Eric Holder
Voter
You
Vote
" Smart on Crime says if you commit violent crimes, you should go to jail, and go to jail for extended periods of time. For people who are engaged in non-violent crimes - any crimes, for that matter - we are looking for sentences that are proportionate to the conduct that you engaged in. "
Eric Holder
Smart
Time
You
" 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. "
Eric Holder
Justice
Integrity
Lawyer
" It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character. "
Eric Holder
Character
Past
Integrity
" The full resources of the Department of Justice have been committed to the investigation into Michael Brown's death. "
Eric Holder
Death
Resources
Justice
" 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. "
Eric Holder
Tool
United
Recruiting
" 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. "
Eric Holder
Progress
Great
Place
" The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind. "
Eric Holder
Laws
Gun
Mind
" I am the attorney general of the United States, but I am also a black man. "
Eric Holder
United
United States
Black
" 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. "
Eric Holder
Face
Government
Land
" 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. "
Eric Holder
Sad
Year
Years
" Kids who I grew up with, who I played ball with, basketball, baseball, and went to parties with - for whatever reason - they ended up in a fundamentally different place than I did. I'm the attorney general of the United States and they are ex-felons. "
Eric Holder
Reason
Baseball
Basketball
" 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. "
Eric Holder
Family
Sympathy
Story
" 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. "
Eric Holder
Justice
Prove
Right
" If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label. "
Eric Holder
You
Will
Accept
" The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents. "
Eric Holder
Responsibility
Bring
Change
" 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
Beyond
Want
Go
" 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. "
Eric Holder
Measure
Justice
You
" 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. "
Eric Holder
Put
First
Jail
" I think that people, despite my law enforcement background, view me as taking these consistently progressive stands, and I think that, philosophically, there is a desire to get at that person. But I think the stands I have taken are totally consistent with a person who is looking at things realistically, factually. "
Eric Holder
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