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I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

I was an attorney general. That was - that matters to me, and if you won't obey your own rules, there's no reason to think you'll obey any others.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

If you were a public official, you had to be accountable, and you had to be reachable.

I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

I know of no government official who would welcome an army of inspectors general combing through four years of emails on their unclassified accounts. That's why they use government accounts, where the government remains responsible for security, and they don't mingle personal correspondence with official.

Anything my staff does in my office is pursuant to congressional rules.

My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts.