The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Attorney General is not above the law.
If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.
The job of the Attorney General is very specific. My roll, as the legal adviser, is to defend the constitutionality of the laws as they're passed.
I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.
I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the President.
Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.
The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents.
While I'm the Attorney General, we will address each issue with one question: What's the right thing to do?
Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.
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.