Janet Reno

“I made the decision. I'm accountable.”

“The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I...”

“Under a death penalty statute that is going to stand up to constitutional muster, you look at the aggravating circumstances and the mitigating circumstances.”

“I think police officers can work with social workers and public health nurses to do so much in terms of addressing the problem of American families, of children in American families as a who...”

“I made a promise to myself when I graduated from law school that I would never do anything that I didn't enjoy doing, and almost every day of the year since that June of 1963, I have awakene...”

“This is a beautiful country. Each of us has a favorite river, a mountain, just a patch of sky for some of us. I want to use the law to make sure that the waters, the land, and the skies of t...”

“What good is telling America's children that they will have equal opportunity for education if they don't have the skills that will even get them to the point of benefiting from education, b...”

“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.”

“The first job I ever had in my life was in the Dade County Sheriff's Office in the Identification Bureau in the summer that I graduated from high school and was getting ready to go to colleg...”

“I'm a scuba diver but not certified.”

“My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair - she beat the living daylights out of us sometimes, and she loved us with all her heart; she taught her favorite poets, an...”

“I collected child support in Dade County, and they wrote a rap song about me, so the kids knew about it, and they started asking me questions about child support. What happens if she wastes...”

“Unless the law issues from all of the people, some of the people will feel left out. They will come to feel alienated. They will be angry. And this will not be a cohesive democracy.”

“All lawyers are going to have to - if we really want to attain civil justice - address the issue of how complicated we have made the laws: what we have done to ensnarl the American people in...”

“One of the reasons I love the law is because I was raised in family - my grandfather was a lawyer, but more importantly, my grandmother was his secretary. And she taught me that lawyers were...”

“I want there to be a real partnership between the Department of Justice in Washington and U.S. attorneys.”

“While service in the Department of Justice is itself one of the highest forms of public service, the Department further strides to increase access to justice for all and to strengthen our co...”

“There are those who profess to support law enforcement but who have attempted to undermine the efforts of hard-working officers who make difficult decisions.”

“Schools can do extraordinary things given the chance; teachers can do remarkable things if we eliminate the paperwork that sometimes binds them and give them a chance to really teach in our...”

“When I went to law school, I had Roger Fisher for Civil Procedure. I never heard anything about negotiations.”