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

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.

We must stand our ground to ensure that our laws reduce violence and take a hard look at laws that contribute to more violence than they prevent.

Morality without kindness and compassion is very dangerous.

The problem is we are not eating food anymore, we are eating food like products. (Hungry For Change Film)

Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you.

She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.

What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.

[Iraqis] know we own their country...It's a good thing, especially when there is a lot of oil out there we need.