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I love lawyers. And I like to talk to lawyers, and I like to engage in a spirited discussion with lawyers.
It doesn't matter to criminals if the event is called a gun show or a flea market -- if they can buy guns.
While I'm the Attorney General, we will address each issue with one question: What's the right thing to do?
The president really shouldn't be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take.
Do and act on what you believe to be right, and you'll wake up the next morning feeling good about yourself.
We've got to look to our educational programs and focus on doing what we can to stem violence in the schools.
When I went to law school, I had Roger Fisher for Civil Procedure. I never heard anything about negotiations.
I think young people can make such an extraordinarily important difference in making this world a better place.
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.
The Bar Association can do so much in teaching people how to resolve conflicts without knives and guns and fists.
We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.
Until the day I die, or until the day I can't think anymore, I want to be involved in the issues that I care about.
The Justice Department is staunchly committed to ensuring that all Americans are treated in a fair and just manner.
America, in all its institutions, whether it be the family or government, has forgotten and neglected its children.
I love good and caring lawyers who are advocates, who are defenders, who are problem-solvers, and who are peacemakers.
I don't think that the economy can absorb a massive flow of immigration that does not relate to the issue of persecution.
People have it so good in America that they get bored very easily. And when people get bored they start protesting things.
U.S. attorneys have taught me a lot over the years, and in the Southern district of Florida, they have been to me partners.
We simply must find ways both to bridge the differences that still seem to divide us and focus on the things that we share.
Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.
Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and to extend that monopoly and undermine consumer choice.
If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.
Anybody that thought that I tried to protect the president has forgotten that I asked for the expansion of the Monica Lewinsky matter.
The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace.
I'm vitally interested in cyber crime and in preparing law enforcement for a time when crime is international in its origins and its consequences.
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.
I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.
Hate crimes based on sexual orientation are among the three top reported hate crimes, after race and religion. Our law should not ignore that reality.
We have the authority to take action, but responsible authority means not only being able to take action, but knowing when and how to take that action.
We're all in this together, and we all have to make an investment in our most precious possession and in the foundation of our future: our young people.
I think lawyers who engage in pro bono service to protect those who cannot help themselves are truly the heroes and the heroines of the legal profession.
What we must do is to sit down together as reasonable people and make our government do what is right, and stop doing what may be wrong-headed or wasteful.
Under a death penalty statute that is going to stand up to constitutional muster, you look at the aggravating circumstances and the mitigating circumstances.
There are those who profess to support law enforcement but who have attempted to undermine the efforts of hard-working officers who make difficult decisions.
Diversity is valued, and it is prized. We learn to appreciate each other and each other's struggles. From diversity, we draw our enormous and our lasting strength.
The U.S. government alleges that for the past 45 years, the companies that manufacture and sell tobacco have waged an intentional and coordinated campaign of deceit.
In 1960, when I graduated from college, people told me a woman couldn't go to law school. And when I graduated from law school, people told me, 'Law firms won't hire you.'
I didn't like the Feds coming to town when I was in Miami, telling me what to do. I didn't like them coming to town and thinking that they knew more about Miami than I do.
If the end brings me out right, what people said about me won't make any difference, and if the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels saying I was right won't make any difference.
I think that a woman's right to choose should be protected. I think it should be protected from physical conduct that prevents that right to choose from being freely exercised.
I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.
We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.
I'm humbled by the honor that President Clinton has done me in nominatinq me as Attorney General of the United States, and I'm going to do my very best to deserve his confidence.
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.
I want to do what I can to make the law make sense to citizens and businesses alike. I want the laws to assist them in worthwhile endeavors, not to stand as bureaucratic obstacles.
I have inquired for most of my adult life, about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent, and I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point.
We, the American people, owe the nation's police officers our deepest gratitude, our best efforts, and our strong support, for they have done so much for us against such great odds.
Unless the law issues from all of the people, some of the people will feel left out. They will come to feel alienated. They will be angry. And this will not be a cohesive democracy.
I would like to visit with people who are so interesting and so... and there are so many wonderful people out there that I would love to have the chance to talk to for a longer time.
If America's tv and movie producers are unwilling to clean up their act... when it comes to sex, bloodshed and violence in their programming... the government stands ready to step in.