I believe strongly that we can ensure our safety and security. We can bring our enemies to justice.

I had objected to it because I felt there was a lack of adequate protections in it.

I hope you will look into it, and I would also hope you will redouble your efforts to work with me on a media shield bill.

An issue on which I believe Attorney General Holder has shown great courage in the face of political pressure is his commitment to the process of safely and effectively closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

the political manipulation that had occurred previously with the Department of Justice, particularly its law enforcement and civil rights functions.

I do not want what appears to many people to be one rule for white America and a different rule for black America.

if that happens in a democracy it can be almost a fatal blow to democracy.

We want us to be secure. We want us to be able to use the abilities to gather intelligence.

I believe that accountability is important and that access to the courts for those alleging wrongdoing by the Government is crucial.

I do not know how we reauthorize any of these things if they are going to be abused that way.

to restore the Department of Justice back to being the Department of Justice.

Changing our interrogation policies to ban torture was an essential first step.

I want to make sure we have accurate views of what is happening.

I do not know how we justify continuing these expansive authorities, whether it is FISA or the search powers authorized by the PATRIOT Act, when they are being--even the expanded authorities are being abused this way.

I believe in that debate, political rhetoric has drowned out reason and reality.

The things you have described should never happen to any victim.

the Lindsay Ann Burke Act, I agree with Senator Whitehouse, is a great achievement, the education that is necessary.

I advocated for increased funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for important VAWA programs.

Its passage and reauthorization were a signal achievement in support of the rights of women in America.

This is something we both strongly believe in, not only for being able to go on the regimen of medication that you talked about, but to be able to avoid it if it is unnecessary and for the peace of mind.

Since 1994, the Violence Against Women Act, or VAWA, has been the centerpiece of the Federal Government's commitment to combating domestic violence and other violent crimes against women.

times change. I was mentioning to others earlier, when I was a prosecutor we did not have any of these programs

there has been a concern about the lack of communication between U.S. Attorney's Offices and Indian tribes regarding declinations

We have made some remarkable progress in recognizing that domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and dating violence are crimes.

It does not make any difference whether it is a family member, a current or past spouse, a boyfriend or girlfriend, an acquaintance or a stranger. It is a crime. It is a crime. It is a crime.