Janet Reno Quotes

"Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and extend that monopoly,"

"We want to try to apprehend those people and take action against them for the most serious crime for which they are eligible for prosecution,"

"[At a Justice Department news conference Browner called the government action] unprecedented ... one of the most significant enforcement actions in our history."

"Let all those who flout the nation's immigration laws be warned we plan to take swift and decisive action against you, ... defend the integrity of this nation's immigration laws."

"Today, we reached agreements that will boost our ability to combat international high-tech and computer-related crime and help us better assist each other in a broad range of law-enforcement matters,"

"I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can."

"The good lawyer is the great salesman."

"I felt joyful at the public's criticism. People come to the country for free speech. It's what America is all about,"

"This agreement between the world's two largest national economies, marks an important milestone in the development of the already close relationship that exists between our two antitrust enforcement agencies,"

"There is a little 6-year-old boy who survived one of the most traumatic events that any child could experience -- to lose his mother there in the Gulf Stream, to float for as long as he did, and live to come ashore under the circumstances that he did. We've just got to think about that little boy,"

"At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer."

"yet another step forward in the Justice Department's investigation of campaign finance abuses associated with the 1996 election."

"We want to fashion recommendations and best practices that local, state and federal agencies can follow,"

"We know that guns do not cause violent behavior, ... but ... since we have made it harder for criminals and other prohibited persons to get guns violent crime has gone down."

"Her knowledge and expertise of immigration issues, coupled with her humanity, fairness, dedication, and compassion, have enabled her to steer the agency towards a more balanced program of judicious enforcement and improved customer service, ... She has served the American people well."

"But we do want to raise consciousness ... that such attacks are growing increasingly likely,"

"Congress has an oversight function, and I have the responsibility to pursue an investigation the right way, which is certainly not to disclose the details of how I'm going to conduct an investigation, ... We will be working with Chairman Burton to see how we both fulfill those functions."

"They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction."

"It does not disagree with my determination, it does not say that the boy cannot be reunited with his father in this country, and in fact the court said we need not decide where or in whose custody the plaintiff should remain while this appeal is pending."

"I don't think I had the authority to go the other way."