Barack Obama: “I urge the Senate to confirm Eric Holder as the next attorney general of the United States.”

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away"

This idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic... is a suggestion that you hate your country.

a belief that our military and law enforcement owe allegiance not to any president or political party, but to the people and our constitution … a belief in the peaceful transfer of power