Janet Reno
Janet Reno
Janet Wood Renoserved as the Attorney General of the United States, from 1993 to 2001. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11, 1993. She was the first woman to serve as Attorney General and the second longest serving Attorney General after William Wirt...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 July 1938
CityMiami, FL
CountryUnited States of America
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I think it is important that we adhere to principles of federalism, recognize that it is primarily a state issue, and, again, do everything we can to play an appropriate role that doesn't politicize the matter but contributes in a thoughtful way to the resolution of it,
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I think it is very important when you don't know what is going to happen either inside the house or outside the house, ... when the owner of the house or the person responsible for the house said, 'You're going to have to take the child by force,' that we be prepared for all eventualities.
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I think it is so important that people of good will come together, work through the processes of the law as soon as possible, and get the boy home to his father,
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He is legally cleared to go back to Cuba,
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He (Elian) has a father, and there is a bond between father and son that the law recognizes and tries to honor, ... We have no information that would indicate that that legal connection, that bond should not be honored.
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We're going to pursue every last murderer until justice has been done,
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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,
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very difficult to deal with . . . She was not as objective as she could be in presenting her positions. If she'd been more objective, she'd have been more effective.
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There are days where I thought if I could have just spent a little bit more time on a certain issue I might have handled it differently.
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There are some bad police officers like there are bad people in every walk of life, ... When we see officers cross the line and tarnish the reputation and violate the laws, it's important that we take action when the jurisdiction of the federal government is invoked.
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When you think of all that he's been through, getting him situated where he should be situated, where he knows that he can pursue a future, is very important, ... And I would hope it would be before the end of the year.
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We're not here to generate controversy. We're here to do what's right and to make sure that the voice of the American people that has spoken is heard fairly,
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Unfortunately the Miami relatives rejected our efforts leaving us no other option but the enforcement action,
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Today we filed a lawsuit that seeks to recover from the tobacco companies the billions of dollars that American taxpayers spend each year on smoke related illnesses,