“I think lawyers who engage in pro bono service to protect those who ca...” — Janet Reno Quote

I think lawyers who engage in pro bono service to protect those who cannot help themselves are truly the heroes and the heroines of the legal profession.

I would like to use the law of this land to do everything I possibly can to protect America's children from abuse and violence and to give to each of them the opportunity to grow to be strong, healthy and self-sufficient citizens of this country.

Though the Attorney General of the United States carries many responsibilities and undertakes many tasks, there can be none more important than the pursuit of civil rights on behalf of all the people of this country.

Our challenge is to remind ourselves that we do have common interest, common grounds, and common dreams.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.