Janet Reno
Janet Reno
Janet Wood Renoserved as the Attorney General of the United States, from 1993 to 2001. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11, 1993. She was the first woman to serve as Attorney General and the second longest serving Attorney General after William Wirt...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 July 1938
CityMiami, FL
CountryUnited States of America
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If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.
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I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.
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I don't think that the economy can absorb a massive flow of immigration that does not relate to the issue of persecution.
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Based on my experience as a prosecutor in Miami, illegal immigration is one of the most critical issues facing this country. As a prosecutor, I felt the burden of it. I think what's important... is for the state and the federal government and for local governments to work together to do everything possible to control illegal immigration in a comprehensive way.
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Until the day I die, or until the day I can't think anymore, I want to be involved in the issues that I care about.
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We're going to pursue every last murderer until justice has been done,
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very difficult to deal with . . . She was not as objective as she could be in presenting her positions. If she'd been more objective, she'd have been more effective.
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We want to try to apprehend those people and take action against them for the most serious crime for which they are eligible for prosecution,
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There are days where I thought if I could have just spent a little bit more time on a certain issue I might have handled it differently.
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There is a little 6-year-old boy who survived one of the most traumatic events that any child could experience -- to lose his mother there in the Gulf Stream, to float for as long as he did, and live to come ashore under the circumstances that he did. We've just got to think about that little boy,
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The diesel engine industry has illegally poured millions of tons of pollution into the air, .. It's time for the industry to clean up its act, and it's time for it to clean up the air.
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But it is not our place to punish a father for his political beliefs or where he wants to raise his child. Indeed, if we were to start judging parents on the basis of their political beliefs, we would change the concept of family for the rest of time.
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We have the authority to take action, ... But responsible authority means not only being able to take action, but knowing when and how to take that action.
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I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.