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Michael Grimm never met a tax he didn't lie to evade.
I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.
A license to practice law is not a license to violate it.
We lost a young man’s life and it begins to represent so many things.
It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.
When suspicion and hostility is allowed to fester, it can erupt into unrest.
Russell Defreitas plotted to commit a terrorist attack that he hoped would rival 9/11.
I will wake up every morning with the protection of the American people my first thought.
Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers.
Our most effective response to terror and to hatred is compassion to unity, and it's love.
After all we have been through, blacks and other minorities deserve to be protected, as anyone else.
The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.
I think that overall, the position - on a whole host of issues - should always be toward inclusion and equality.
If we're going to have the view that we're going to protect everyone in this society equally, we have to mean it.
Those who perpetrate fraud against our financial institutions will be met with the full force of law enforcement.
It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.
You would notice if your own personal debit card limit shot up to $40 million dollars. And you'd probably call somebody.
Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.
We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.
Building trust between law enforcement officers and the communities we serve is one of my highest priorities as attorney general.
We must reflect on the kind of country that we want to build and the kind of society which we are choosing to pass on to our children.
What I have realized is I cannot guarantee the absence of discrimination or hatred or prejudice, but I can guarantee the presence of justice.
Christopher Finazzo had a great job that paid him millions of dollars, but this honest living was apparently not enough to satisfy his greed.
The American people must be able to trust that their courts and law enforcement will uphold, protect, and defend their constitutional rights.
Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory.
Let us not act out of fear and misunderstanding, but out of the values of inclusion, diversity, and regard for all that make our country great.
We want to take a hard look at the ease with which wrongdoers can get their hands on deadly weapons and the frequency with which they use them.
Criminal conduct by police officers, federal agents, and their confederates cannot be tolerated and will be met with the full force of the law.
The answer is never violence. Rather, the answer, our answer, all our answer must be action. Calm, peaceful, collaborative and determined action.
Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.
Every American expects and deserves the protection of law enforcement that is effective, responsive, respectful and, most importantly, constitutional.
Those who store, package, and sell the food we serve our families have a responsibility to maintain basic standards of cleanliness in their facilities.
The sentence imposed on Abdul Kadir sends a powerful and clear message. We will bring to justice those who plot to attack the United States of America.
Housing programs designed to help young families and senior citizens purchase homes should be available to people of all races, including African Americans.
Instead of turning away from our neighbors, our friends, our colleagues, let us instead learn from our history and avoid repeating the mistakes of our past.
My view is that we cannot be ruled by fear. When we do that, we are not making ourselves see. We are not thinking things through. We are not looking at what works.
We must reject the easy impulses of bitterness and rancor and embrace the difficult work, but the important work, the vital work of finding a path forward together.
The 'Ndrangheta is an exceptionally dangerous, sophisticated and insidious criminal organization, with tentacles stretching from Italy to countries around the world.
Whether it is tribalism, racism, xenophobia, or anti-Muslim backlash we're talking about, we spend so much time and energy fighting ways to divide ourselves from others.
The good in this world far outweighs the evil. Our common humanity transcends our differences, and our most effective response to terror is compassion, it's unity, and it's love.
Violent ideologies can proliferate and spread; threats are no longer contained by borders and oceans; and adversaries are as likely to be found in cyberspace as on the battlefield.
What we must not do - what we must never do - is turn on our neighbors, our family members, our fellow Americans, for something they cannot control, and deny what makes them human.
We have determined as a society, as a country, as a people, that the incarceration and the supervision and the specific fines for a particular crime are that person's debt to society.
Often, we do not know where our choices will take us. This is why the best choices are often made based not on what they can bring to us, but what they will allow us to bring to others.
To the extent residency preferences prevent families and senior citizens from purchasing homes because of race, ethnicity or color, the preferences violate federal law and cannot be tolerated.
I find that people want aggressive policing if they as a community feel they are part of it. They don't want aggressive policing if they feel it's being imposed upon them and they are a target.
The motto of the Netherlands is translated into English as 'I will uphold.' But I want you to know that, as we go forward, our message together is not just 'I will uphold,' but 'we will uphold.'
The public properly relies upon FDA classification of drugs as nonprescription as a reflection of the agency's judgment regarding the safety and proper use of a drug without a doctor's prescription.
Particularly over the last few decades, technological innovation has offered opportunities to bring people and nations together - but it has also created significant new challenges to law enforcement.
Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you are. But you have to be the one to control what you do and what you say and how you present yourself.