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
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.
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I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.
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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.
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We need to do this everyday of the week and just really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.
Can't actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease. Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices. The question is not when does it end, but when does it begin When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?
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It's hard for me to see how members of al Qaeda could be considered prisoners of war. I think they clearly do not fit within the prescriptions of the Geneva Convention.
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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.
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I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.
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It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.
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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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Let's deal with reality. 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.
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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.
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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.
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