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.
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Anything my staff does in my office is pursuant to congressional rules.
We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty.
Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
We all know our duty better than we discharge it.
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
I would say that as a government employee, I am subject to the Hatch Act.
I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act.
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
At the Justice Department, we have no greater obligation than ensuring all people are treated equally under the law, and Americans must know that we will vigorously pursue criminal activity regardless of whether the crime is committed on a street corner or in a corner office.
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