Eric Holder

To ensure the public safety, we are allowed to ask those questions without giving Miranda warnings.

Yes. There are exceptions to Miranda, and that is one of the ways in which we conduct our interrogations of terrorism suspects.

For us to be successful in this effort, we need to gather as much intelligence as we can.

This President is committed to appointing and putting on the bench qualified people who are non-ideological in their views.

I am never satisfied, even with an operation like this one, which I think we all have to understand was successful.

I think that as long as you are asking questions, appropriate questions, probing about public safety issues, I think the courts are generally going to be supportive.

The Supreme Court in the Dickerson case... said that the Miranda warnings were of constitutional dimension.

We have to get beyond the notion that crime fighting only happens through people in uniform or through people who are lawyers who act as prosecutors.

I think the 9th Circuit does present unique problems, both in its geographic size and the workload that it has.

Useful, valuable intelligence was gained in that 1 hour.

The notion that people could bring guns to airports, especially given the Al-Qaeda focus on the use of airplanes as terrorist tools, is one that, to me, is very worrisome.

If you were to take from us the ability to use the Federal courts, you will weaken our ability to win this war.

It is called the public safety exception.

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

With Abdulmutallab and Shahzad, we made extensive use of the public safety exception before a decision was made to give them the Miranda warnings.

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.

Unfortunately, health care is too often the focus of criminals who wish to take advantage of our system.

The total for the last fiscal year, fiscal year 2009, was almost $100 billion in improper payments.

Well, in addition to the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, as well as the Joint Chiefs of Staff were…

Facts, facts, not fear, must be the basis of all our discussions.

I am determined to try to do this, but to do it in the right way.

There are approximately 300 people or so who are in our Federal prison system now as a result of their movement through the Article III system.

We are determined to find the people responsible and to hold them accountable.

my focus is on how they are incapacitated, how they are disrupted, how they are punished, how they are held accountable.

Concerns about the leaking of information, the protection of national security secret sources and methods can be equally accomplished in Article III courts as they can in military commissions.