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" I cannot and will not raise money on Benghazi. I also advise my colleagues to follow suit. "

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" I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor. "

" It always matters whether or not you can trust your government. "

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" I'm not searching for ways to tell the District of Columbia what to do. "

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" There's several different forms of executive privilege. The one that is most absolute would be close advisers talking to the president himself. "

" The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong. "

" There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job. "

" If you were summoned for jury duty and you didn't show up, what would happen? You'd be in jail! "

" You don't get John Gotti to testify against his driver. You get the driver to testify against John Gotti. "

" The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash. "

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" I don't like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges. "

" I was on the campaign trail for 18 months. I never got a question about the District of Columbia in South Carolina. "

" My daughter took Latin for three years; she still can't speak it. "

" There's no use to having the majority if you are going to be hamstrung by your perception of political vicissitudes. "

" The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law! "

" October of 2011, Occupy protestors descended upon McPherson Square, and they decided to stay. Despite the clear language of the law, these protestors camped at McPherson Square with the definition of camping being sleeping or preparing to sleep. "

" I do not want to stay in Washington. "

" I don't think the president had anything to do with Fast and Furious. I'm not sure Eric Holder did, which leads to a conversation about whether he should have known about it. "

" When people in positions of trust mislead us - either recklessly, negligently or intentionally - that impacts the republic. "

" I'm unelectable in the District of Columbia. "

" I believe being a good senator requires two things. Number one, acumen. Number two, interest. "

" I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons. "

" Honestly, I have heard a lot in my 16 years as a prosecutor. "

" When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make. "

" If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law? "

" Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted. "

" Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat. "

" It is actually costlier to hire an immigrant. And yet the farm worker is almost invariably an immigrant. You can't pay an American to pick blueberries. "