All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I ran for attorney general to be attorney general.
If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.
I hope I will be a good Attorney General, but one of the things that will be as important to me is to know that I made a commitment to my family and honored it, a commitment that has been repaid 10,000 times over.
I have a record as attorney general that is separate from my personal beliefs.
I'm a hard headed lawyer.
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.
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 have the highest possible regard for the district attorneys in the State of New York.
There are a whole variety of reasons I want to be attorney general, a whole variety of things that I do as attorney general that go beyond national security.
I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.