We need election systems that are free from fraud, discrimination, and partisan influence and that are more, not less, accessible to the citizens of this country.

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.

It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.

If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label.

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.

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.

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