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" The full resources of the Department of Justice have been committed to the investigation into Michael Brown's death. "

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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. "

" I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us. "

" 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. "

" The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis. "

" We are not programmed to bury our kids. "

" I don't have any intention of resigning. "

" 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. "

" You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there. "

" The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents. "

" 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. "

" I think one of the things that I don't think people focus on is that there are some red states that have done some really innovative things when it comes to criminal justice reform, including on rehabilitation, reentry efforts. I think one of the things that we have seen in that regard is that you save money. "

" I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Michael Brown's tragic death has revealed a deep distrust between some in the Ferguson community and its police force. It also developed a need to develop and widely disseminate law enforcement best practices for responding to public demonstrations. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets. "

" 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. "