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" One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation. "
Eric Holder
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" 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. "
Eric Holder
Nation
Always
Thought
" 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. "
Eric Holder
Rights
Others
Law
" 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
" Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. "
Eric Holder
Security
Process
Judicial
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Eric Holder
See
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You
" The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That's the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he's not captured by us. We know that. "
Eric Holder
Know
Reading
Reality
" 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
" 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
" Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job. "
Eric Holder
Who
Job
Her
" The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws. "
Eric Holder
Laws
Deserve
American
" The full resources of the Department of Justice have been committed to the investigation into Michael Brown's death. "
Eric Holder
Death
Resources
Justice
" 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. "
Eric Holder
Looking
People
Training
" 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. "
Eric Holder
Think
Legal
Law Enforcement
" Displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive. "
Eric Holder
Force
Response
Peaceful
" Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do. "
Eric Holder
Challenges
New York
Face
" 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. "
Eric Holder
Fear
Think
Talking
" 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
" 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
" Well, I think the American people have to understand that the Mexican government is committed, in a very substantial way, to eradicating the effect of the impact of the cartels on Mexico. We have - what are called vetted units down there. Units that have been vetted by our law enforcement people there, the people with whom we deal - primarily. "
Eric Holder
Government
Think
People
" 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. "
Eric Holder
People
Justice
Sacrifice
" 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
" 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
" The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process. "
Eric Holder
Constitution
Due
Judicial
" It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official. "
Eric Holder
Pains
Law Enforcement
Law
" History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson. "
Eric Holder
History
Just
Than