Alberto Gonzales Quotes

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• I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Mistake, Perfect, Firsts

  "Gonzales faces tough questions at hearing", www.cnn.com. January 7, 2005.

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• I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Dream, Father, Worst

  "Gonzales Resigns as Attorney General". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick and Alex Cohen, www.npr.org. August 27, 2007.

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• At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as how my kids feel about me. That's how I'm going to measure my success - not how I did as counsel to the president or as attorney general. How did I do as a dad?

  Alberto Gonzales

  Dad, Kids, The End Of The Day

  "Alberto Gonzales: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. December 9, 2009.

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• In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Jobs, Hate, People

  "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. July 26, 2005.

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• I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.

  Alberto Gonzales

  War, Casualties, Terror

  "Ex-Bush Team Acclimates to Private Life" by Cristina Corbin, www.foxnews.com. March 8, 2009.

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• America is my home - I believe in her promise and I will do what I can to secure that promise for future generations of our children. America is great - not because of our military might or our economic strength - but because of the greatness of Americans, and I welcome the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder, side by side with all of you to preserve our heritage rich in "liberty and justice for all."

  Alberto Gonzales

  Children, Military, Believe

  Remarks at his installation as Attorney General, www.justice.gov. February 14, 2005.

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• I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Thinking, Government, Media

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• There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Constitution, Prohibition, Grants

  "Gonzales: 'There Is No Express Grant of Habeas Corpus In The Constitution'". Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings Transcript, thinkprogress.org. January 19, 2007.

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• I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that. But there is a competing interest, and that is the ability of prosecutors to get information that may be absolutely essential to assist them in the investigation of illegal wrongdoing. And so you've got these two competing interests. I believe that the current policy at the Department of Justice reflects a careful balancing of those interests.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Believe, Thinking, Justice

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• Access to information and freedom of access to it may seem like a fundamental right but there are many people who think, rightly or wrongly, it is for your own good that it is hidden.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Thinking, People, Fundamentals

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• I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Zero, Hype, Tolerance

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• We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Thinking, Views, Talking

  "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. July 26, 2005.

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• Meth is a national problem to the extent that it's not limited to one state; it's not limited to one region of the country. As to whether or not it requires a national solution, I'm not sure we're there yet, but that's something that's certainly being debated on the Hill; it's certainly something that we're discussing within the administration and that will continue.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Country, Hills, Problem

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• There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Government, Example, Documentation

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• But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Determination, People, May

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. July 26, 2005.

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• Well, first of all, let me say that - let me remind your viewers that I am recused from this investigation, and what I said this weekend is not anything new.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Weekend, Firsts, Investigation

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• Listen I don't expect an apology from men like Chuck Schumer, and I would put him and other individuals who were attacking me at the top of the list contributing to the low, low public perception of Congress, the integrity of Congress quite frankly.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Kings, Integrity, Apology

  "Gonzales: 'I feel angry'". Interview with John King, johnkingusa.blogs.cnn.com. July 23, 2010.

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• We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected Judiciary inferior to Congress or the President in making policy judgments. That, for example, a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Country, Judging, President

  Speech to American Enterprise Institute, www.justice.gov. January 17, 2007.

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• The nature of the new war places a high premium on other factors, such as the ability to quickly obtain information from captured terrorists and their sponsors in order to avoid further atrocities against American civilians.

  Alberto Gonzales

  War, Order, Atrocities

  "Decision Re Application of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War to the Conflict with Al Qaeda and the Taliban". Memorandum for the President, August 25, 2010.

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• In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Judgement, Enemy, Politics

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• The FBI director's probably spent a great deal of pressure to go either way - you know, to have said something, to not have said something. And, you know, he made the decision this was the right way to go. You know, I'm not going to second guess him without knowing all the information related to the investigation.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Knowing, Decision, Directors

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In the job of a member of the Supreme Court of the United States, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job. And so I respect the right of individuals to have strongly held opinions and to express those opinions in our country.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Country, Hate, People

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• Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in London and in Egypt. We're very concerned about it. We are providing our expertise to aid in the investigation in London.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Prayer, Heart, Egypt

  "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. July 26, 2005.

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• Am I worried about additional attacks in this country? Of course I'm worried about it. We expect the American people to go on living their lives as normally as possible. But it is a post-9/11 world, and the United States government is doing everything we can do to ensure that another terrorist attack does not occur here in this country.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Country, People, World

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• I think that, you know, state and local governments play a critical role in the protection of this country and the protection of certain systems like our mass transit system. And we share information daily with our state and local officials. I think it's one of the reasons that we are safer today and I have every confidence that, in developing its policies, that the New York transit authorities have considered the legal considerations they should be considering in making these kinds of decisions and in formulating this policy.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Country, Thinking, Decision

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