The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.

I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.

There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me [and] directed at the president. You know, people talking about taking their country back. There's a certain racial component to this for some people. I don't think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there's a racial animus.

You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.

I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons.

I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man.

One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation.