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" I love good and caring lawyers who are advocates, who are defenders, who are problem-solvers, and who are peacemakers. "

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" We've got to make sure that the young, violent, serious juvenile offender is punished, that it's fair punishment, that it's punishment that fits the crime and that is understood and that is anticipated and expected. "

" While I'm the Attorney General, we will address each issue with one question: What's the right thing to do? "

The Right Thing

" We, the American people, owe the nation's police officers our deepest gratitude, our best efforts, and our strong support, for they have done so much for us against such great odds. "

" This is a beautiful country. Each of us has a favorite river, a mountain, just a patch of sky for some of us. I want to use the law to make sure that the waters, the land, and the skies of this nation are protected. "

" We must honor, protect and support our police officers and their families every day of the year. "

" Diversity is valued, and it is prized. We learn to appreciate each other and each other's struggles. From diversity, we draw our enormous and our lasting strength. "

" You are not going to put 100,000 police officers on the streets overnight and do the right job. To put them on the streets, to see that they're properly trained; you have to do it in an orderly way over a period of time. "

" We must try to understand the true weight of law enforcement officers' burdens. "

Law Enforcement

" I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States. "

" I'm interested in elder justice and what we can do about elder abuse and neglect. "

" The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly. "

" We must heal the divisions caused by intolerance and bigotry. "

" The good lawyer is the great salesman. "

" Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities. "

" I have learned that raising children is the single most difficult thing in the world to do. It takes hard work, love, luck, and a lot of energy, and it is the most rewarding experience that you can ever have. "

" Peer mediation is a chance for students to work with other students to help them resolve problems, arguments, disagreements without having to get the teacher or the administration involved. "

" I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington. "

" I just don't like greedy, indifferent, selfish lawyers. And there are not that many of them. "

" If you disagree with me about a position I have taken, or what I've done, tell me, argue with me, debate. Sometimes, right and good are not that clear; at other times, it is only deliberate and respectful debate that leads us to understand what road we should take. "

" Do and act on what you believe to be right, and you'll wake up the next morning feeling good about yourself. "

" My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence. "

" What has too often happened in the past is that people have threatened punishment but have failed to carry it out. It's imperative in any initiative that is undertaken that punishment be real and that there be truth in sentencing, and that the truly dangerous offenders - the recidivists and the career criminals - be put away and kept away. "

" Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it. "

" My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair - she beat the living daylights out of us sometimes, and she loved us with all her heart; she taught her favorite poets, and there is no child care in the world that will ever be a substitute for what that lady was in our life. "