We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

A street criminal can steal only what he can carry, but with a stroke of a pen, the dialing of a telephone or the pushing of a computer key, the white collar criminal can and does steal billions.

We must try to understand the true weight of law enforcement officers' burdens.

We've got to make sure that the young, violent, serious juvenile offender is punished, that it's fair punishment, that it's punishment that fits the crime and that is understood and that is anticipated and expected.

I think, clearly, where you have a situation in which the Solicitor General tells me, 'I cannot in good faith argue a certainly legal position,' and if the president told us to argue that position, we would have to tell him, 'No, we can't do that, Mr. President.'

We simply must find ways both to bridge the differences that still seem to divide us and focus on the things that we share.

I think police officers can work with social workers and public health nurses to do so much in terms of addressing the problem of American families, of children in American families as a whole, and giving them an opportunity to get off to a fresh start, to become self-sufficient, to lead safe, constructive lives.

This is a beautiful country. Each of us has a favorite river, a mountain, just a patch of sky for some of us. I want to use the law to make sure that the waters, the land, and the skies of this nation are protected.

Each generation looks to its children to keep our society moving and to make life better.

The Bar Association can do so much in teaching people how to resolve conflicts without knives and guns and fists.

Peer mediation is a chance for students to work with other students to help them resolve problems, arguments, disagreements without having to get the teacher or the administration involved.

While I'm the Attorney General, we will address each issue with one question: What's the right thing to do?

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

I have learned that raising children is the single most difficult thing in the world to do. It takes hard work, love, luck, and a lot of energy, and it is the most rewarding experience that you can ever have.

Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.

The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly.

I think lawyers who engage in pro bono service to protect those who cannot help themselves are truly the heroes and the heroines of the legal profession.

I believe that the federal government has significant constitutional powers, but I don't think it's effective to impose pipelines on communities.

I have experienced things that I think many Canadians have gone through - the feeling of not belonging, the feeling of being a victim, of being hurt, being marginalized.

If AIG collapsed, it would have buckled our financial system and wrought economic havoc on the lives of millions of our citizens.

The cheapest and cleanest energy is the energy you don't use.

Size is the enemy of excellence in investment banking, particularly when you are trying to put together two different cultures.

When you're boiling in oil, in the middle of a crisis, the challenges are so consuming there is no time for anything else.

I would come to New York, work, and then get out of New York. I didn't go out to dinner with other people on the Management Committee. I didn't socialize. I didn't politick.