"Well, Attorney General Mukasey, who I think is still here--yes, and I am honored to have him here today."
"The President from on down should be crystal clear on this, and I haven't seen that."
"I would not favor a registry of Muslims in the United States. No, I would not."
"That is something that is appropriate for Congress and the Chief Executive to consider."
"But to target people, and to any way demean them, if they were fine public servants and they were following the law, and carrying out a legitimate policy of their supervisors, would be wrong and I thi..."
"agencies oftentimes see themselves as independent fiefdoms."
"I think it is, yes. That is exactly what I intended to do."
"It would raise serious constitutional problems because the Constitution explicitly guarantees the right to free exercise of religion."
"The antitrust policies of the United States have to be consistent and as clear as possible."
"The Solicitor General... has a duty, the Department of Justice does, to defend the laws passed by this body, by Congress."
"Well, it can fail to enforce it by setting prosecutorial policies with regard to declining to prosecute whole chunks of cases and, in effect, eliminate a statute."