American - Public | July 21, 1938 - November 7, 2016
America, in all its institutions, whether it be the family or government, has forgotten and neglected its children.
Janet Reno
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My father was born in Denmark. He came to this country when he was 12 years old.
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I hope I will be a good Attorney General, but one of the things that will be as important to me is to know that I made a commitment to my family and honored it, a commitment that has been repaid 10,000 times over.
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If you have a good community behind you and a good family supporting you, then, when the buck stops with you, there is the strength of that community and that family to draw upon.
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It helps to know how to lose. You know it is not the end of the world, and you pick yourself up and move ahead.
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It's fine to get paid and get a big verdict, but to go out and represent people, sometimes in unglamorous ways, is really what lawyering is all about.
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The lawyers who really begin to address the problems of their clients address them without recourse to our courts, although that recourse is absolutely essential in providing leverage.
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The law as a profession has provided me with more satisfaction than I ever dreamed.
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As a child, I wanted to be a lawyer because I thought lawyers and the law were wonderful. But they are more wonderful, I think, than I had thought.
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I made a promise to myself when I graduated from law school that I would never do anything that I didn't enjoy doing, and almost every day of the year since that June of 1963, I have awakened glad that I was going to work, glad that I was going to court, glad that I was going to grapple with a problem.
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We cannot forget the need to use the law as a shield, but we must remember other forces of the law.
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One of the most important parts of my life has been community.
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