Alberto Gonzales
Alberto Gonzales
Alberto R. Gonzaleswas the 80th United States Attorney General, appointed in February 2005 by President George W. Bush, becoming the highest-ranking Hispanic American in executive government to date. He was the first Hispanic to serve as White House Counsel, and earlier he had been Bush's General Counsel during his governorship of Texas. Gonzales had also served as Secretary of State of Texas and then as a Texas Supreme Court Justice...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 August 1955
CitySan Antonio, TX
CountryUnited States of America
At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as how my kids feel about me. That's how I'm going to measure my success - not how I did as counsel to the president or as attorney general. How did I do as a dad?
There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.
Access to information and freedom of access to it may seem like a fundamental right but there are many people who think, rightly or wrongly, it is for your own good that it is hidden.
I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.
I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days.
I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.
They report up to the attorney general, who - we all report up to the President of the United States. All of us work in the executive branch.
This may be the most important thing a president does.
Had these four defendants succeeded in their alleged plots, their attacks would have taken an untold number of Americans,
He has said some of the right things, so I think people are more hopeful than they have any real reason to be, ... But it's all speculation and it's all impossible to know for sure.
Some in this country mistakenly believed it could not happen here, ... Today we have chilling evidence that it is possible.
Clearly, there are privilege issues that have to be considered. As a general matter, we would not be disclosing internal deliberations, internal recommendations.
As you might imagine, he's got many friends that he'll see as he travels . . . and they'll suggest that this person be nominated to the federal bench.
The message we want to send is that if you engage in fraud, if you participate in providing false statements, you're going to be prosecuted. We want to be very, very clear: there is no company that is too big or too important an industry that will escape prosecution if they in fact engage in wrongdoing.