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[Possible Attorney General] that's a discussion I'd like to have with [Donald Trump]. -- George Stephanopoulos
I agree with President Obama and Attorney General Holder that we need to reform our criminal sentencing laws. -- Raul Labrador
Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. -- Thomas Perez
Rudy Giuliani also be mentioned as a possible Attorney General. Is it fair to say that he would like to serve President Trump? -- George Stephanopoulos
My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General. -- Bob McDonnell
As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina. -- Michael Emerson
As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina. -- Michael Emerson
The job of the Attorney General is very specific. My roll, as the legal adviser, is to defend the constitutionality of the laws as they're passed. -- Jeffrey Chiesa
When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won. -- Barack Obama
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
We are engaged in immediate conversations with the White House on deliberations over a successor whom we hope will continue in the general direction of Attorney General Holder. -- Al Sharpton
President Bush delivered his first State of the Union address, riding high on an 82-percent approval rating, and with Attorney General John Ashcroft dispatching agents to interview the other 18 percent. -- Jon Stewart
The power granted the Attorney General to intervene in all equal-protection-of-the-law cases is extremely broad and dangerous. Choices made by the Attorney General could follow a political and selected pattern. -- John Sparkman
Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more. -- Zachary Quinto
Attorney General John Ashcroft said there is a new credible terrorist threat. He said everything is under control; not to panic. And then he went back to his harmonically sealed bunker. -- Jay Leno
On Capitol Hill, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales raised his right hand, swore to tell the truth, and then everybody had a good laugh and went back to what they were doing. -- Jay Leno
In other words, under Attorney General John Ashcroft, the FBI, the INS and the Department of Justice are so out of control that they have actually begun to enforce U.S. immigration laws. -- Ann Coulter
The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet. -- Edwidge Danticat
A lot of people are now criticizing Attorney General John Ashcroft for his policy on detaining what he considers suspicious people. I think he's going a little overboard. Today, he arrested the entire band Foreigner. -- Jay Leno
I can guarantee that not because I give Attorney General [Loretta] Lynch a directive. That is institutionally how we have always operated. I do not talk to the attorney general about pending investigations [On Hillary Clinton]. -- Barack Obama
Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General. -- Daniel Inouye
Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his legal innovations was especially pernicious: the demonizing of state attempts to ensure honest elections. -- Edwin Meese
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
Attorney General John Ashcroft bid farewell to the Justice Department with a goodbye address. The voluntary resignation came as a bit of a disappointment to the attorney general, who had hoped to be raptured out of office. -- Jon Stewart
There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered. -- Louis Stokes
If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that. -- Jon Stewart
I guess the next Attorney General is going to have to figure that out. I don't know if that will be me or not, but the next Attorney General would have to figure that out [ if Hillary Clinton has violated the law]. -- Rudy Giuliani
I fully support Attorney General Cuccinelli and his efforts in challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision in the health care legislation, and I look forward to working to repeal and defund the government takeover of health care in the 112th Congress. -- Robert Hurt
The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
[Attorney General] would have to be something where I felt he really needed me and not that I'd be the only one that could do it, but maybe that I could do it a little bit different or a little bit better than somebody else. -- George Stephanopoulos
I explained to the president that I've been pleased with my conversations with the Attorney General and Civil Rights Division regarding their helpful understanding that they aren't taking over this investigation, but are conducting a parallel review of the events that led to Michael Brown's death. -- Roy Blunt
I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American. -- Judy Holliday
Attorney General John Ashcroft has been hospitalized. I believe he is suffering from homophobia. No, actually, it was just gallstones, but when they gave him the hospital gown that opens in the back, he refused to wear it, he thought it was a gay wedding dress. -- Jay Leno
Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales. -- Barbara Mikulski
Attorney General John Ashcroft is in intensive care. He's suffering from a severe case of pancreatitis, which they can't really figure out because he's not really a drinker. They think he might have picked up some type of infection while wiping his ass with the Bill of Rights. -- Bill Maher
As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is a powerful study of one promising solution: a data-rich, eminently readable demonstration of why we should treat gun violence as an American epidemic. -- Scott Harshbarger
The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community. We are proud that he has been the best Attorney General on Civil Rights in U.S. history and disappointed because he leaves at a critical time when we need his continued diligence most. -- Al Sharpton
It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own. -- Joe Biden
Let's look at this rationally...We've got a doctor who may kill him, an Attorney General who wants to declare him bananas, and a Defense Secretary who wants me to start World War III...First, we ruled out starting World War III. We were down to killing the President or having him carted off by the men in white coats... -- Christopher Buckley
President Bush broke the law and lied to the American people when he unilaterally authorized secret wiretaps of U.S. citizens. But rather than focus on this constitutional crisis, Attorney General Gonzales is cracking down on critics of his friend and boss. Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law. -- Anthony Romero
I am asking my Attorney General to create a special unit of federal prosecutors and leading state attorneys general to expand our investigations into the abusive lending and packaging of risky mortgages that led to the housing crisis. This new unit will hold accountable those who broke the law, speed assistance to homeowners, and help turn the page on an era of recklessness that hurt so many Americans. -- Barack Obama
The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy. -- Michael Moriarty
Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job. -- Eric Holder
As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering. -- Kelly Ayotte
Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability. -- John Cornyn
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
On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal. -- Barton Gellman
As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators... and I'm afraid they're going to cut my budget. -- Ben Chandler
As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point. -- Ben Chandler
Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful. -- Jesse Ventura
During my time as a judge, as a justice, and as attorney general, I've had one overarching goal, and that is a strict interpretation and application of the laws and the Constitution. I would be Madisonian. -- Greg Abbott
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
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
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
I'm not against the government. I'm against this ever-expanding government that doesn't know its limits. And that's how I see the role of the attorney general, as someone in an office that can protect you and defend the Constitution and defend state sovereignty and our individual liberty. -- Alan Wilson
The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.' -- Harold H. Greene
You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make. -- Joe Biden
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
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
The attorney general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus. -- Louie Gohmert
Salazar's record is one of weakness; he hasn't been a good attorney general. -- Bob Schaffer
All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be. -- Pam Bondi
The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty. -- Bob Butterworth
I am the attorney general of the United States, but I am also a black man. -- Eric Holder
I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man, -- Eric Holder
If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label. -- Eric Holder
If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label, -- Eric Holder
I don't want somebody as attorney general who thinks he has to rubberstamp whatever the president says. -- Patrick Leahy
My attorney general will restore the integrity of the Department of Justice, which has been severely questioned. -- Donald Trump
I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece. -- Edwin Meese
I will appoint an attorney general who will reform the Department of Justice like it was necessary after Watergate. -- Donald Trump
If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general. -- Kelly Ayotte
I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days. -- Alberto Gonzales
You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe. -- Charlie Crist
Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me. -- Pam Bondi
I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed. -- Ken Starr
I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency. -- Al Sharpton
I was an assistant U.S. attorney. I was the associate attorney general of the United States, third-ranking official under Ronald Reagan. -- Rudy Giuliani
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
I was approached by friends who encouraged me to run for an open seat - attorney general of Michigan. It was a big risk. -- Jennifer Granholm
[Donald Trump] will appoint an attorney general, who will send very clear messages about how law enforcement is to be pursued in this country. -- Chris Christie
The economy is governed through cartel agreements and monopoly. The attorney general is the one who's controlling funds. There is no free business in Georgia. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
Maybe when I'm done being an attorney general I'll go out and do something that will really benefit people's lives and become a USANA distributor. -- Mark Shurtleff
I will only vote to confirm a nominee for attorney general who is truly independent and who will guarantee reforms that restore and uphold the Constitution. -- Christopher Dodd
Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash? -- James Whistler
I don't want to call it audacity, it's too good a term, to appoint Jefferson Beauregard Sessions as attorney general should damn well be respectful of John Lewis. -- Katrina vanden Heuvel
I know that Duke made a number of demands, including that the attorney general drop its investigation. We have no intention of asking the attorney general to do that. -- Gray Davis
I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do. -- John McCain
Eric Holder, our attorney general, says the Mr. Snowden will be brought to justice. Just as soon as we can find someone who can track his calls and read his emails. -- Bill Maher
I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general. -- Christine Gregoire
It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed me to enforce the Civil Rights Act and help make its promise a reality. -- Thomas Perez
We haven't seen a situation where you have the FBI director talk about an investigation side by side with the attorney general who confirms, yes, I accept the recommendation of the FBI director. -- Alberto Gonzales
As attorney general, Ive had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point. -- Ben Chandler
I don't want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can be trusted to use the power we give it with restraint and care. -- Russ Feingold

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