Eric Holder actually said...

"Trayvon's death last spring caused me to sit down and to have a conversation with my own 15-year-old son, like my dad did with me. This was a father-son tradition I hoped would not need to be handed d..."

"By allowing and perhaps encouraging violent situations to escalate in public, such laws undermine public safety. It is our collective obligation. We must stand our ground."

"I think the Civil Rights Division has been much energized under Eric Holder. They've been much more aggressive in recent years than they were in the Bush administration."

"For a federal hate crime, we have to prove the highest standard in the law, something that was reckless, that was negligent, does not meet that standard. We have to show that there was specific intent..."