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It is the thing that keeps me up at night - the notion that you have individuals in the United States who are looking at computer screens and who are becoming radicalized.

~Eric Holder

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Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.

~Eric Holder

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I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights Movement how the department can - and must - always be a force for that which is right.

~Eric Holder

Topics: Always Boy Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Department Department Of Justice Ever Force How Justice Kennedy Loved Movement Must Prove Right Rights Rights Movement Robert Since Watched Which Young

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This is going to be a very transparent Justice Department. But I'm not gonna sacrifice the safety of the American people or our ability to protect the American homeland.

~Eric Holder

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In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost measure what kind of Justice Department you have by what kind of civil rights division that you have.

~Eric Holder

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Although the attorney general is a part of the president's team, you're really separate and apart. You have a special responsibility as the nation's chief law enforcement officer. There has to be a distance that you keep - between this department and the White House.

~Eric Holder

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I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons.

~Eric Holder

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The vast majority of law enforcement officers conduct themselves in really honorable, appropriate ways.

~Eric Holder

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I think one of the things that I don't think people focus on is that there are some red states that have done some really innovative things when it comes to criminal justice reform, including on rehabilitation, reentry efforts. I think one of the things that we have seen in that regard is that you save money.

~Eric Holder

Topics: Criminal Criminal Justice Done Efforts Focus Including Innovative Justice Money One Of The Things People Really Red Reform Regard Rehabilitation Save Seen Some States Things Think You I Think

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The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind.

~Eric Holder

Topics: After Gun Inability Laws Massacre Mind Pass Reasonable Safety Something Weighs

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: January 21st, 1951

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