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The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents.

~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

Topics: Although Apart Attorney Attorney General Between Chief Department Distance Enforcement General House Keep Law Law Enforcement Nation Officer Part President Really Responsibility Separate Special Team White White House You

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If I were attorney general in Kansas in 1953, I would not have defended a Kansas statute that put in place separate-but-equal facilities.

~Eric Holder

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Kids who I grew up with, who I played ball with, basketball, baseball, and went to parties with - for whatever reason - they ended up in a fundamentally different place than I did. I'm the attorney general of the United States and they are ex-felons.

~Eric Holder

Topics: Attorney Attorney General Ball Baseball Basketball Did Different Different Place Ended Fundamentally General Grew Kids Parties Place Played Reason States Than United United States Up Whatever Who

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My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

~Eric Liu

Topics: Air Air Force Chinese Force General Grandfather Grew Hearing Him Nationalist Pictures Pilot Seeing Stories Uniform Up War World World War World War Ii

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If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with soldiers deployed in two theaters of war, has had multiple meetings with Dick Cheney, the former vice-president of the United States, to discuss Petraeus's candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency.

~Eric Massa

Topics: Been Believe Cheney Commander David Deployed Dick Cheney Discuss Former General Had Meetings Multiple Nomination Presidency Republican Soldiers States Theaters True Two United United States Vice-President War I Believe

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When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when they're working efficiently. This is a general preference in creative work.

~Eric S. Raymond

Topics: Also Bored Creative Creative Work Efficiently General Happiest Happy In Other Words Inappropriate Meaningless Other Preference Programmers Words Work Working

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In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it.

~Eric Schmidt

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Ninety-five percent of the work in the attorney general's office is civil litigation and regulatory work, and I think I certainly have a lot more experience in that than most of the folks who have served in the office.

~Eric Schneiderman

Topics: Attorney Certainly Civil Experience Folks General Litigation Lot More Most Office Percent Regulatory Served Than Think Who Work I Think

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We've sued out-of-state power plants that are polluting our air and led a coalition of attorneys general from Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Massachusetts against efforts in the U.S. House of Representatives to remove critical environmental regulations that protect New York communities from toxic pollution.

~Eric Schneiderman

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