Quotes by Janet Reno

• We want to continue the efforts against domestic violence and spread the drug courts, and develop real effective means of providing treatment for drug abusers without having to have them arrested.
• My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.
• The Department of Justice transcends party because we're building on the Weed and Seed program.
• The good lawyer is the great salesman.
• The president really shouldn't be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take.
• There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts.
• Until the day I die, or until the day I can't think anymore, I want to be involved in the issues that I care about.
• We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father.
• We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.
• I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.
• We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
• It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours.
• I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington.
• I worked with some wonderful people, tried my best and I feel comfortable.
• I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.
• I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.
• I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can.
• I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.
• Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it.
• At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.
• Anybody that thought that I tried to protect the president has forgotten that I asked for the expansion of the Monica Lewinsky matter.
• If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.