Eric Holder

The decisions that I have made in connection with anything that I have done in the Justice Department don't reflect my political ideology.

When the theft of our intellectual property or the methods that we use to produce things is stolen by other organizations or by other countries, it has a direct impact on our economy.

The concern that we have is that this is inherently a Federal responsibility.

The piracy question is one that has economic consequences as well as safety consequences.

As soon as I heard about it, I instructed that that policy, that practice had to stop.

At base, we have to enforce the law, a law that was designed by this Congress, or its predecessor, to protect the rights of American citizens.

I think if one looks at the documents, that statement is manifestly true.

We do enforce the laws. We are more effective than any----

This is an internal process being done by members of the FBI, members of the Justice Department who are steeped in this.

These statutes do not require the degree of specificity that you are implying.

I think Puerto Rico would certainly be a candidate for such a surge.

The Supreme Court has said that the right to travel is of constitutional dimension.

We are in the process of looking at that earlier policy and seeing if in light of experience there are changes that need to be made.

I respectfully disagree, and I point to you, as I said, other States that have...successfully have implemented a policy.

No, but let's get to the bottom line here.

I would hope that we would be able to work together to come up with a way in which we could craft tools to deal with what is truly a 21st-century problem.

We have opposed 11--11. Eighteen hundred requests, we have opposed 11.

We certainly want to provide information to the extent that we can with regard to the process that we use in selecting targets.

the report has disturbing findings

The notion that you would let guns walk in a firearms case is for me absurd. Absurd. And it was the reason why I said it cannot happen. While we stopped it, it is not DOJ policy. And anybody who does it now is breaking a direct directive…

I think that given the budget realities that we face, the amount that we have requested is strong on law enforcement.

I'm hoping that we can. There are privacy interests that we have to deal with, but my hope is to get that report, or as much of the report, made public as we possibly can.

the executive branch regularly informs the appropriate Members of Congress about our counterterrorism activities, including the legal framework, and would of course follow the same practice where lethal force is used against United States…

It would be something that would just simply be devastating.

I would urge everybody to understand that this Justice Department, this Attorney General, when we made that determination that mistakes occurred, took the extraordinary step of dismissing that case.