Eric Holder

Useful, valuable intelligence was gained in that 1 hour.

Changes have already been instituted with regard to the watch list.

It is called the public safety exception.

I am troubled that, in at least some of our district courts and some of our circuit courts, the number of vacancies is getting alarmingly high.

The efforts that our Mexican colleagues and President Calderon have taken are heroic.

We have to understand that crime fighting happens not only by police officers and by prosecutors.

The crisis in indigent defense is also about dollars and cents.

I think there's no question that the people, the person who was behind that act intended to spread terror across New York had that -- had those devices been successful. We certainly could have seen a substantial loss of life.

Our adversarial system requires lawyers on both sides who effectively represent their clients' interests, whether the Government or the accused.

The United States Department of Justice, Eric Holder, the Attorney General, says they are studying whether they are going to go to court and join the plaintiffs in claiming this law is unconstitutional.

Torture is certainly a violation of our law.

Our goal is to either capture Osama bin Laden or to kill him.

I am confident that we do have that capacity.

One of the things that the Internet allows is for criminals in far-off places to almost be in your living room.

They are not junior partners. They are equal partners in this effort.

the support of Congress, the authorization from Congress to conduct these kinds of programs, is the way in which the executive branch should operate.

We have put a lot of money and a lot of effort into the Merida Initiative, and I believe you and Secretary Clinton, Secretary Napolitano, the Director of National Intelligence, and others traveled to Mexico City recently to visit with the…

Osama bin Laden will 'never appear in an American courtroom.'

I think the battle of this is very much in the balance, and without continued American attention and continued American support, I think we decrease the chances that the Mexican Government will ultimately be successful.

It is the most effective deterrent.

I will not allow good, decent lawyers who have followed the greatest traditions of American jurisprudence, done what John Adams did, done what our Chief Justice has said is appropriate, I will not allow their reputations to be besmirched.

I think our history shows that Article III courts are capable of trying cases without putting at risk intelligence sources and methods.

What I think we too often think of is that that is a local problem, and it is not. It is a national problem.

We know that we can prosecute terrorists in our Federal courts safely and securely because there are more than 300 convicted international and domestic terrorists currently in the Bureau of Prisons.

I think the wisdom of that Act is from my perspective relatively obvious.