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.

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 understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe.

Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.

When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia - which was inappropriate, certainly that . . . to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people.

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

I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.