The good lawyer is the great salesman.
Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.
Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you’ll never lose.
Until the day I die, or until the day I can’t think anymore, I want to be involved in the issues that I care about.
I made the decision long ago that to be afraid would be to diminish my life.
I’m just an old maid with an attraction to men.
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Nobody should be owning a gun which does not have a sporting purpose.
I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.
The president really shouldn’t be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take.
I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.
If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.
Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.
The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?
Nothing can make me madder than lawyers who don’t care about others.
America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out.
It might be that some day I shall be drowned by the sea, or die of pneumonia from sleeping out at night, or be robbed and strangled by strangers. These things happen. Even so, I shall be ahead because of trusting the beach, the night and strangers.
I always wait until a jury has spoken before I anticipate what they will do.