Eric Holder Quotes

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

He must be a bold man indeed who is confident that he knows what causes crime.

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

The War on Poverty did not work because it was a war on shame … a war on the family and a war on God.

Crime is a tax on the poor

The wiping out of crime is so largely an economic question because much crime arises from the fact that children grow up in undesirable surroundings and have parents that have been conditioned by the same type of environment.

As someone who grew up in public housing, I've known these conditions.

Britain is now living with the consequences of allowing an underclass to take root and fester.

Too often, ill-informed rhetoric has led to emotional hysteria that obfuscates solid evidence regarding the real problems faced by poor people and, in overwhelmingly great proportions, by black people.

There's not a lot of hope coming from the inner city.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.

We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.

I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made - and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the core of communism and socialism - is that you can have perfect solutions to social problems like poverty, like crime. You're not going to eliminate all crime. Maybe you'll never eliminate all poverty.