No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law.

In the months ahead, I will leave the Department of Justice, but I will never -- I will never -- leave the work. I will continue to serve and try to find ways to make our nation even more true to its founding ideals.

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

Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land - is among the gravest that government leaders can face.

Good luck with your asparagus.

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.

I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.