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The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.

~Dick Thornburgh

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Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

~Edward Brooke

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I am the attorney general of the United States, but I am also a black man.

~Eric Holder

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I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that we have made a great deal of progress. But there's still more we have to travel along this road so we get to the place that is consistent with our founding ideals.

~Eric Holder

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If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label.

~Eric Holder

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I'd like to continue being involved with issues that animated my time as attorney general - criminal-justice reform and civil rights especially. I don't just want to give speeches; I'd like to involve myself in this work in a systematic way.

~Eric Holder

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On a personal level, I've seen a lot in my time as attorney general, but few things have affected me as greatly as my visit to Ferguson. I had the chance to meet with the family of Michael Brown. I spoke to them not just as attorney general but as a father of a teenage son myself.

~Eric Holder

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I was raised - professionally - in the Public Integrity Section. I started in 1976, stayed there for 12 years. It was formed after Watergate by then-head of the Criminal Division Dick Thornburgh, who ultimately became Attorney General.

~Eric Holder

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There are a whole variety of reasons I want to be attorney general, a whole variety of things that I do as attorney general that go beyond national security.

~Eric Holder

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I'm attorney general of the United States. I will not stand for - I will not allow people to take away that which people gave their lives to give, and that is the ability for the American people to vote.

~Eric Holder

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