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Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies.

The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.

Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.

I'm a 21st-century guy, secure in who I am.

It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.

The vast majority of law enforcement officers conduct themselves in really honorable, appropriate ways.

Displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive.

History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.

The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.

I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.

I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons.

You keep your eyes on the prize, you try to do what's right, and eventually, you'll reach your goal.

If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label.

Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.

The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind.

I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.

The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents.

I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.

Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.

The full resources of the Department of Justice have been committed to the investigation into Michael Brown's death.

Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.

I don't have any intention of resigning.

I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.

If I were attorney general in Kansas in 1953, I would not have defended a Kansas statute that put in place separate-but-equal facilities.

We are not programmed to bury our kids.

I'll leave here with my head held high and with confidence that history will judge my time here.

I'm a hard headed lawyer.

No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law.

I am the attorney general of the United States, but I am also a black man.

You constantly hear about voter fraud ... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.