There are a whole variety of reasons I want to be attorney general, a whole variety of things that I do as attorney general that go beyond national security.

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.

People don't want the truth, ' he says, waving a hand at the streets around us. 'They want better-quality lies. High definition lies on fifty-inch screens.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

Writing, for me, is a search for God.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

Be careful with what you say. A girl remembers everything.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.