You wanted to do the right thing. We swore to an oath to uphold the law.
Sure. That is the law, as the Supreme Court has given it to me.
I will pledge to us to maintain it.
The Civil Rights Division has not necessarily gotten the attention, the resources, the support that it has needed.
We have to make sure that people are given...due process.
The Civil Rights Division is unique. It is, in some ways, the conscience of the Justice Department.
We have a responsibility to the system.
What he did is deplorable.
I thought that the President's determination was a reasonable one, given the fact that there was--that these people had served really extend...
I will make them available, always with the presumption that, you know, transparency is the best thing.
The attempt to politicize the Department will not be tolerated, should I become Attorney General of the United States.
Actions after 9/11 were excessive and unlawful.
No, I do not see that in the FISA statute.
In the ball game that we call our judicial system, the Supreme Court gets to be the umpire.
It is my intention to devote a huge amount of time looking at the Civil Rights Division and restoring that Division.
She never did, throughout her too short life. In a career in public service that began in the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Jus...
I think that the report will be an important tool, an important assessment tool for us to find out how these statutes have been working.
There is a false choice, I think, that is often presented, so I would look forward to working with you and the other members of the Committe...