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" 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. "
Eric Holder
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Kansas
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" The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind. "
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Mind
" One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction. "
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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. "
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Doing
Me
" I still think that we have a hesitance to talk about things racial. And I think we do it at our detriment. We go from incident to incident, and we have spikes in which race becomes something that we talk about, as opposed to talking about race in those less contentious times when I think we might make more progress. "
Eric Holder
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Race
Talking
" 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
" Enforcement priorities and arrest patterns must not lead to disparate treatment under the law, even if such treatment is unintended. And police forces should reflect the diversity of the communities they serve. "
Eric Holder
Diversity
Law
Priorities
" 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
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Integrity
Lawyer
" We are not programmed to bury our kids. "
Eric Holder
Bury
Kids
Programmed
" 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
" 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
" Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial. "
Eric Holder
Nation
Talk
Racial
" 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. "
Eric Holder
Who
Integrity
Division
" 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
" 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
" Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. "
Eric Holder
Security
Process
Judicial
" 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 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
" 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
" I don't have any intention of resigning. "
Eric Holder
Intention
Any
Resigning
" 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
" 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
" 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
" As the brother of a retired law enforcement officer, I know firsthand that our men and women in uniform perform their duties in the face of tremendous threats and significant personal risk. They put their lives on the line every day, and they often have to make split-second decisions. "
Eric Holder
Men
Law
Day
" 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. "
Eric Holder
Distance
You
Team
" Displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive. "
Eric Holder
Force
Response
Peaceful
" 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 think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons. "
Eric Holder
Think
Good
I Think
" 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. "
Eric Holder
Kingdom
Think
United States
" 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. "
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Rights
Others
Law
" 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