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

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.

Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others

It is good to have a dream, as long as the dream does not have you.

I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.

It wasn't a cutdown to call someone a Mexican. It would kill my career to refer to someone as Mexican today. It's like calling me an American.

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.

He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.

Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

Without question, dying on 'Lost' was the best thing I have ever done in my entire career.

Ever notice Hulk Hogan ain't got no hair on his chest? The only one who's got hair on their chest on their team is Cindy Lauper.