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Although the attorney general is a part of the president's team, you're really separate and apart. You have a special responsibility as the nation's chief law enforcement officer. There has to be a distance that you keep - between this department and the White House.

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.

As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not.

The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.

We need an attorney general for the people, not a presidential protector and puppet of the administration.

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.

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.

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.