One of the things I learned is that you’ve got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime – that it’s not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction. Eric Holder Read Quote
It’s a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late ’70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn’t feel the need to question the other person’s character. Eric Holder Read Quote
Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies. Eric Holder Read Quote
Well, I think the American people have to understand that the Mexican government is committed, in a very substantial way, to eradicating the effect of the impact of the cartels on Mexico. We have – what are called vetted units down there. Units that have been vetted by our law enforcement people there, the people with whom we deal – primarily. Eric Holder Read Quote
I look forward to working with the NRA to come up with ways in which we can use common sense approaches to reduce the level of violence that we see – in our streets, and make the American people as safe as they possibly can be. Eric Holder Read Quote
I’m not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis. Eric Holder Read Quote
I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us. Eric Holder Read Quote
Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial. Eric Holder Read Quote
The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That’s the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he’s not captured by us. We know that. Eric Holder Read Quote
