Eric Holder Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we've not engaged in.”

“I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons.”

“One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.”

“Well, I think the American people have to understand that the Mexican government is committed, in a very substantial way, to eradicating the effect of the impact of the cartels on Mexico. We have - what are called vetted units down there. Units that have been vetted by our law enforcement people there, the people with whom we deal - primarily.”

“I don't have any intention of resigning.”

“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.”

“It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.”

“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.”