Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used.

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.

Generosity is to help a deserving person without his request, and if you help him after hisrequest, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke.

The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop.

He had a talent for asking exactly the right questions to lead me to my own answers. Just being near him made things clearer.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

For every force charged by God, may He be exalted, with some business is an angel put in charge.

In music, silence is more important than sound.

Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union.

Oh! death will find me, long before I tire Of watching for you; and swing me suddenly Into the shade and loneliness and mire Of the last land!