Eric Holder

Failure is not an option. Failure is not an option. These are cases that have to be won.

I will select it. And I have.

This notion of 'leftist lawyers' somehow prolonging this, the vast majority of the time in which these matters were not brought to trial, to fruition, happened in the prior administration.

We are not going to be inventing things. It is not going to be a new way of doing things at the Department.

For every crime that remains unsolved, there is a rapist who is potentially still out there and ready to strike again.

It is absolutely important. These are vital tools that we have to have in this fight against those who would do us harm.

I think the legislation that was initially proposed by the Bush administration was well conceived, and we will continue to support that.

the United States is at war. There is no question about that.

As I have indicated, it is my intention, after the processes are gone through at the Department, to seek the death penalty with regard to the 9/11 plotters.

If we want to get a handle on the crime problem that we have had success in knocking down to historically low numbers, we have to deal with the problem of violence against women, and we have to deal with the problem of children who are…

I think that what Congress has done in response to the Supreme Court concerns in reforming the military commission, military tribunals, has legitimized them.

It seems to me that we need to celebrate the successes that we have had, the consciousness that we have raised in our Nation, but we need to do more.

I laid out several goals for my time as Attorney General: to protect the security of the American people, to restore the integrity of the Department of Justice, to reinvigorate the Department's traditional mission, and, most of all, to…

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is not making this decision. The Attorney General makes.

To get U.S. Attorneys confirmed I think would help.

I do not want to denigrate, however, the fact that these reformed military commissions... are, I think, much better than they were.

Youth violence is not a Chicago problem. Any more than it is a black problem, a white problem, or a Hispanic problem. It is something that affects communities big and small and people of all races and all colors. It is an American problem.

The attorney general decided to ask him to expand his investigation after reading the 2004 report.

I was a young college student driving from New York to Washington, stopped on a highway, and told to open the trunk of my car, because the police officer told me he wanted to search it for weapons. I remember as I got back in the car and…

We prefer the Senate provision.

We want to complement them, we want to help them.

Those kinds of crimes are worthy of consideration, examination by the Federal Government.

We do not think that there is any problem in that regard.

This is a bill that is designed to prosecute and hold people accountable for conduct, not for speech.

I think there is pretty widespread agreement that there is the need for this legislation.