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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
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" 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
" 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
" 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
" I look forward to working with the NRA to come up with ways in which we can use common sense approaches to reduce the level of violence that we see - in our streets, and make the American people as safe as they possibly can be. "
Eric Holder
American
People
Violence
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Eric Holder
Community
Death
Police
" 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
Think
Race
Talking
" 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
" 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
" 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 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. "
Eric Holder
Red
Justice
Money
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Eric Holder
Work
Justice
Meaning
" 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
" 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
" Displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive. "
Eric Holder
Force
Response
Peaceful
" You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there. "
Eric Holder
Voter
You
Vote
" I'm a hard headed lawyer. "
Eric Holder
Hard
Headed
Lawyer
" 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
Were
Place
Kansas
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. "
Eric Holder
Security
Process
Judicial
" I don't have any intention of resigning. "
Eric Holder
Intention
Any
Resigning
" 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