Eric Himpton Holder Jr. Quotes

• I actually think that the dotting of the i’s and the crossing of the t’s is what separates the United States, the United Kingdom, our allies, from those who we are fighting.

  Eric Himpton Holder Jr.

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• Let’s deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.

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• It pains me whenever there’s the death of a law enforcement official.

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• I think that what I’m doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.

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• I’m not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.

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• Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.

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• One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation.

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• The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That’s the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he’s not captured by us. We know that.

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

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• Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.

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• The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.

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

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• We are not programmed to bury our kids.

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

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• I think that people, despite my law enforcement background, view me as taking these consistently progressive stands, and I think that, philosophically, there is a desire to get at that person. But I think the stands I have taken are totally consistent with a person who is looking at things realistically, factually.

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Eric Himpton Holder Jr. (35)

Birth:	21st January, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer

About

Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. was born in the Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He served as the 82nd Attorney General of the United States, from 2009 to 2015. Holder, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama, is the first African American to hold the position of U.S. Attorney General. He was senior legal advisor to Barack Obama during Obama's presidential campaign and one of three members of Obama's vice-presidential selection committee. He earned a B.A. degree in American history in 1973. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, graduating in 1976.

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