"This Committee and the Congress funds the various departments of the executive branch, and you have every right before you fund our agencies and departments to get responsive answers to questions that are proper."
"I would direct their attention to, first, to the remarks of Senator Specter who, in his entire career, said he made one vote that he would regret and that was the vote against me."
"This cannot be handled in any way that would suggest anything other than absolute objectivity."
"I do not have any hesitation or any lack of ability to separate the roles that I have had."
"I do believe that if an Attorney General is asked to do something that is plainly unlawful, he cannot participate in that."
"I have always loved the law. It is the very foundation of this country."
"I am not naive. I know the threat that our rising crime and addiction rates pose to the health and safety of our country."
"I abhor the Klan and what it represents and its hateful ideology."
"Protecting the people of this country from crime, and especially from violent crime, is a high calling of the men and women of the Department of Justice."
"I would defend the statute, if it is reasonably defensible, yes. It is passed by Congress; it would be the duty of the Attorney General, whether they voted for it or support it, to defend it."
"The Office of Attorney General of the United States is not a normal political office, and anyone who holds it must have total fidelity to the laws and the Constitution of the United States."