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" 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
Think
Doing
Me
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" 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. "
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" I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool. "
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" 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. "
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" We are not programmed to bury our kids. "
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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. "
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Justice
Prove
Right
" 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. "
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Father
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" When it comes to police officers, I have concerns about the training that they receive. This whole notion of implicit bias, looking at people and having stereotypical reactions to them on the basis of their ethnicity. "
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Looking
People
Training
" The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind. "
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Gun
Mind
" The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents. "
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Bring
Change
" I actually think that the dotting of the i's and the crossing of the t's is what separates the United States, the United Kingdom, our allies, from those who we are fighting. "
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Think
United States
" 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. "
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Justice
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" 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. "
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Measure
Justice
You
" Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will not be the last. The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Constitution has meaning for all communities. "
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Justice
Meaning
" 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. "
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Fear
Think
Talking
" 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. "
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Tool
United
Recruiting
" 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. "
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Beyond
Want
Go
" If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label. "
Eric Holder
You
Will
Accept
" Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards. "
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Nation
Always
Thought
" The vast majority of law enforcement officers conduct themselves in really honorable, appropriate ways. "
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Law
Honorable
Ways
" 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. "
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Want
Rights
Myself
" I don't have any intention of resigning. "
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Intention
Any
Resigning
" It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official. "
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Pains
Law Enforcement
Law
" You keep your eyes on the prize, you try to do what's right, and eventually, you'll reach your goal. "
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Goal
You
Eyes
" 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. "
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Stand
American
Will
" 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. "
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Were
Place
Kansas
" 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. "
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Tools
Think
Respect
" The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens - raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born. "
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Born
Nation
" 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. "
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Think
View
Law
" 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. "
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Reason
Baseball
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