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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Attorney General is not above the law.
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 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.
All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.
The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.
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.
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.