Janet Reno Quotes
Our challenge is to remind ourselves that we do have common interest, common grounds, and common dreams.
Reno, Janet. "Address on Civil Rights." United States Department of Justice, 18 Jan. 1999.
This is a remarkable quotation. Here was a leading minister of the Established Church of England who is arguing that there should be no established church insofar as religious belief is concerned. Essentially this is what England has developed. The Anglican Church is still the established church but only for purposes of state cerimonies and the religion of the Royal Family. The establishment has nothing to do with lawmaking, or common religious belief or inhibition of the many other religions in England and there is complete freedom of conscience.
Janet Wood Reno was an American lawyer who served as the Attorney General of the United States from 1993 until 2001. President Bill Clinton nominated Reno on February 11, 1993, and the Senate confirmed her the following month. She was the first woman to serve as Attorney General and the second-longest serving Attorney General in U.S. history, after William Wirt.