Eric Holder Quotes

We've directed the creation of a task force for reducing violent crime in America, including the horrendous situation - take a look at Chicago and others - taking place right now in our inner cities.

With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

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.

There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.

The essence to reducing violent crime in our society is to take these people [criminals] off the street.

If the police can shoot a criminal, then why can't we take action against those who are poisoning our society?

Since 1992 we have made dramatic progress in reducing violent crime.

Let's talk about the real issues of crime which people are worried about. What people are worried about is the rise in violent crime. We believe that more community policemen and women are part of the answer to this.

I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.

When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades.

Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work.

I have a message for all of you. The crime and violence that today afflicts America will soon - and I mean very soon - come to an end.

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence.

In Chicago in 2000, the Cure Violence health approach saw a 67 percent decline in shootings and killings, which soon replicated to 70 communities nationwide with multiple independent evaluations from world-renowned institutions, such as the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

When crime was spiking in our communities, Dad wrote the crime bill that put 100,000 cops on the streets and led to an eight-year drop in crime across the country.

My top priority as Attorney General is to continue the fight against violent crime, and step it up wherever needed.

You know, in our country lately we're more interested in protecting the criminals than we are in making sure that we're strong and powerful and know what we're doing.

The more killing and homicides you have, the more havoc it prevents.

If a law could keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be virtually no gun crime at all.

Because you won't get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time.

When you have 4,000 people killed in Chicago by guns, from the beginning of the presidency of Barack Obama, his hometown, you have to have stop-and-frisk.

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence.

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