As a child, I wanted to be a lawyer because I thought lawyers and the law were wonderful. But they are more wonderful, I think, than I had thought. Janet Reno Read Quote
I made a promise to myself when I graduated from law school that I would never do anything that I didn’t enjoy doing, and almost every day of the year since that June of 1963, I have awakened glad that I was going to work, glad that I was going to court, glad that I was going to grapple with a problem. Janet Reno Read Quote
I think, clearly, where you have a situation in which the Solicitor General tells me, ‘I cannot in good faith argue a certainly legal position,’ and if the president told us to argue that position, we would have to tell him, ‘No, we can’t do that, Mr. President.’ Janet Reno Read Quote
It is the police of America who are on the front lines, who are on the streets, who are in the daily contact with American citizens, who translate the dreams of American citizens when they succeed and frustrate the dreams when they fail. Janet Reno Read Quote
My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair – she beat the living daylights out of us sometimes, and she loved us with all her heart; she taught her favorite poets, and there is no child care in the world that will ever be a substitute for what that lady was in our life. Janet Reno Read Quote
If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it. Janet Reno Read Quote
My father was born in Denmark. He came to this country when he was 12 years old. Janet Reno Read Quote
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community. Janet Reno Read Quote
