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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards

The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.

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

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

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

It was her chaos that made her beautiful.

I had thought Chicago was inevitable, like diarrhea.

With all this wide and beautiful creation before me the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.

Little liberties are great offenses.

Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).

As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers.

Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.