Keith Ellison

Let the people have a voice. Let there be some decisions.

This idea that they are unaccountable makes no sense.

If we are really talking about the CFPB, let's talk about how we can strengthen it and make sure that the consumers have a voice.

I think that Representative Foster made a great point. Would it be a good idea to be able to go to the Fed and say, 'Raise interest rates or we are going to cut your budget.'? That is a bad idea.

We hold you in high regard. And we also hold you to high standards. We don’t want you to be discouraged. And when a member of your profession is held accountable, it does not diminish you. In fact, it shows, it shows the whole world that…

Accountability is not justice. Justice is restoration.

This sends a clear message that juries want to hold these police officers to high standards and for law enforcement, this shouldn't be seen as a symbol of shame, but instead as a moment to restore trust through accountability.

We`re vindicating our duty to make sure that people don`t have to be fearful of murder and people who do murder will be held accountable.

And your role as a state actor is not going to shield you from responsibility and accountability.

Well, it was a historically long sentence for this offense. But at the same time, no matter how much time Judge Cahill gave Derek Chauvin, it would never restore George Floyd.

The outcome of this case is critically important. But by itself, it`s not enough. My hope for our country is that this moment gives us pause and allows us to rededicate ourselves to the real societal change that will move us much further…

Like the conviction of Derek Chauvin two months ago, today’s sentencing is not justice. But it is another moment of real accountability on the road to justice.

I do care about defendants. I think as a prosecutor, you know, you`re not a minister of punishment, you`re a minister of justice.

I would argue that the community expects a degree of independence. The community likes the idea that there are no conflicts, no affinities, no longstanding friendships, no loyalties, that the only thing at issue is justice.

When Jeff Sessions said that he was going to discontinue these -- these consent decrees because of systemic pattern and practice brutality, that actually, I think, accelerated the problem.

I would not call today`s verdict justice, however, because justice implies true restoration. But it is accountability, which is the first step towards justice. And now the cause of justice is in your hands.

I think that, if we have nothing to hide, we shouldn`t worry about what might be found by the international community.

Without any question Merrick Garland`s announcement of DOJ involvement in Minneapolis and in other places is welcome news.

I would not call today`s verdict justice, however, because justice implies true restoration. But it is accountability, which is the first step towards justice.

The people who stopped and raised their voices on May 25th, 2021, old, young, men and women, black and white, a man from the neighborhood just walking to get a drink, a child going to buy a snack with her cousin, an off duty firefighter on…

I would not call today’s verdict justice however, because justice implies true restoration, but it is accountability which is the first step towards justice. We need true justice. That’s not one case. That is a social transformation that…

And now the cause of justice is in your hands. And when I say your hands, I mean the hands of the people of the United States.

They stopped and raised their voices, and they even challenged authority because they saw his humanity. They stopped and they raise their voices because they knew that what they were seeing was wrong.

I would not call today`s verdict justice, however, because justice implies true restoration. But it is accountability, which is the first step towards justice.

The momentum and the emotion and the feeling and the sense of possibility that people may feel because of this verdict should be channeled into a national policing reform bill that`s pending before the Senate right now, the George Floyd…