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 Read Quote
The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents. Eric Holder Read Quote
If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label. Eric Holder Read Quote
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 Read Quote
While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I’ve never known a man who loved this country more than my father did. Eric Holder Read Quote
I don’t even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don’t think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool. Eric Holder Read Quote
Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square… I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do. Eric Holder Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I grew up in the Justice Department. I served 12 years as a line lawyer in the public integrity section. This department under me will not have any kind of political interference. I will not allow political interference in the Justice Department. Those who might attempt to do that will be rebuffed. Eric Holder Read Quote
