Janet Reno Quotes

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

"Anybody who looks at this case and doesn't know the circumstances of it is going to say 'why?', and I think that's what the president kind of naturally asked,"

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

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

"Although the investigations are still under way, these shootings appear to have been motivated by hate, ... Hate crimes represent an attack not just on individual victims, but also on the victims' communities. They tear at the very fabric of a people's life."

"These shootings appear to have been motivated by hate,"

"We're going to pursue every last murderer until justice has been done,"

"If there is not probable cause that a citizen is knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence gathering activities for, or on behalf of, a foreign power which may involve a violation of federal law, then (the Justice Department) will not recommend that the application be presented to the Court,"

"I think it's that he is one of the smartest men I've ever met. [He] has the capacity to talk to a person as if they are the most important person around and as if he understands their hopes and fears and dreams."

"We are dedicated in this instance to finding the truth, and we are not going to stop until we do"

"Brokers may have gotten away with these crimes with little punishment before. Those days are over. If you prey on unsuspecting Americans, you're going to answer for your crimes,"

"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,"

"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."

"I don't think you endorse something by purchasing it if it's the only game in town ... in terms of an effective machine, and the lowest price available,"

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

"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."

"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."

"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,"

"This fully supports the [Justice] Department's view that this case is about protecting consumers,"

"Based on all the information we have to date, I see no basis for reversing,"