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• I made the decision long ago that to be afraid would be to diminish my life.

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• Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.

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• Nothing can make me madder than lawyers who don’t care about others.

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• We’re building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.

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• We want to continue the efforts against domestic violence and spread the drug courts, and develop real effective means of providing treatment for drug abusers without having to have them arrested.

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• We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father.

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• We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

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• Until the day I die, or until the day I can’t think anymore, I want to be involved in the issues that I care about.

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• There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts.

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• The president really shouldn’t be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take.

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• The good lawyer is the great salesman.

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• The Department of Justice transcends party because we’re building on the Weed and Seed program.

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• My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

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• It was not the president’s responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours.

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• If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.

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• I’m not fancy. I’m what I appear to be.

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• I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington.

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• I worked with some wonderful people, tried my best and I feel comfortable.

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• I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.

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• I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

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Janet Reno (25)

Birth:	21st July, 1938
Death:	7th November, 2016
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer

About

Janet Wood Reno was born in Miami, Florida, USA. She was an American lawyer. She earned a BS degree in Chemistry fron Cornell University in 1960. She earned an LLB degree from Harvard Law School in 1963. In 1971, she joined the staff of the Judiciary Committee of the Florida House of Representatives. In 1973, she worked on a project to revise the state's system of rules and regulations for criminal procedures. In 1978, she was appointed State Attorney for Miami-Dade County. She served as Attorney General of the United States from 1993 until 2001, nominated by President Bill Clinton. She was the first woman to serve as Attorney General and the second-longest serving Attorney General in U.S. history, after William Wirt. Reno never married and did not have children.

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