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Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptable; it is out of bounds, and if you break the law, we will prosecute you for it.

— John Ashcroft Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006)

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To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.

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It is not enough that we have a guilty defendant. We must have an innocent system as well.

Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006)

How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

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A trustee has a responsibility to guard the assets of others with a higher degree of care than he does his own.

Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006)

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