Alberto Gonzales Quotes

As the Director of the FBI, I am committed to ensuring that the Bureau is being transparent and responsive to legitimate congressional requests.

I do not talk to the FBI directors about pending investigations [on Hillary Clinton].

The director of the FBI...said we can't know for certain who these people are coming from Syria.

I released 34 years of tax returns and 300,000 e-mails in my government record. To get the information from Hillary Clinton, you need to get a subpoena from the FBI.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

Like most other states, Illinois has little regulation of the economic interests of legislators and relies on public disclosure to keep the lawmaking honest.

When it comes to those who are accused and their right to defend themselves, it is perfectly reasonable to expect relevant evidence to be made public, and I am in favour of open justice.

In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.

I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent body of its own, and it follows the laws, and it must operate according to the law.

If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.

Many state parole boards claim exemptions from state sunshine laws that would be unthinkable for other government officials.

It’s a political process to get to be a United States Attorney but after that, politicians have to adopt a hands off approach to the U. S. Attorneys.

Trial by television is ... foreign to our system.

And let the sheriffs who have arrested them bring them before the justice without any other summons.

There is nothing secret in our nation’s capital.

… a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if officials make public only what they want citizens to know, then publicity becomes a sham and accountability meaningless.

Secrecy is an instrument of conspiracy; it ought not, therefore, to be the system of a regular government

Congress did not themselves wish to be investigated..

The public has every right to see Robert S. Mueller III's conclusions. Absolutely nothing in the law or the regulations prevents the report from becoming public. Indeed, the relevant sources of law give Attorney General P. William Barr all the latitude in the world to make it public.

A judge sometimes must release a criminal. He doesn't like it, she doesn't like it, but the law requires it. And the context of an election in which you are "soft on crime" betrays a misunderstanding of the judicial process and a misunderstanding of the Constitution.

We need an attorney general for the people, not a presidential protector and puppet of the administration.

I've led a grand jury.

The attorney general should be a watchdog for the rule of law, not a lapdog for the president - simple as that.