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All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.

Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.

I actually became a lawyer because I thought you had to be a lawyer in order to get into national politics.

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.

My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.

I have a record as attorney general that is separate from my personal beliefs.

I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed me to enforce the Civil Rights Act and help make its promise a reality.