American - Public | January 21, 1951 -
The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.
Eric Holder
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents.
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The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.
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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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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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I'm a hard headed lawyer.
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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.
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I'm a 21st-century guy, secure in who I am.
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