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" Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used. "
Eric Holder
Justice
Execution
Policy
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" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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 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. "
Eric Holder
Tools
Think
Respect
" The full resources of the Department of Justice have been committed to the investigation into Michael Brown's death. "
Eric Holder
Death
Resources
Justice
" 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. "
Eric Holder
Think
View
Law
" 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. "
Eric Holder
American
Born
Nation
" 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 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
Cannot
Importance
Know
" 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 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
" Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. "
Eric Holder
Security
Process
Judicial
" We are not programmed to bury our kids. "
Eric Holder
Bury
Kids
Programmed
" Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad. "
Eric Holder
Sad
Year
Years
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I am the attorney general of the United States, but I am also a black man. "
Eric Holder
United
United States
Black
" 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
" I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons. "
Eric Holder
Think
Good
I Think
" 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
" I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis. "
Eric Holder
Going
People
Without
" 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
" It is the thing that keeps me up at night - the notion that you have individuals in the United States who are looking at computer screens and who are becoming radicalized. "
Eric Holder
Night
Up
United
" 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
" On a personal level, I've seen a lot in my time as attorney general, but few things have affected me as greatly as my visit to Ferguson. I had the chance to meet with the family of Michael Brown. I spoke to them not just as attorney general but as a father of a teenage son myself. "
Eric Holder
Father
Myself
Son
" 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
" It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official. "
Eric Holder
Pains
Law Enforcement
Law