U.s. Attorneys Quotes

Federal criminal prosecutions are a direct function of the number of U. S. Attorneys. The more prosecutors that are appointed, the more criminal prosecutions there will be.

When the Democrats were investigating the U.S. attorneys that were accused of responding to political pressure, that I joined Senator Leahy in efforts to get transparency of all of the documents.

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.

U.S. attorneys have taught me a lot over the years, and in the Southern district of Florida, they have been to me partners.

Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.

The President appoints the U.S. Attorneys. They're political in a certain respect. But the Department of Justice - the power that they hold is so great, it's life and limb, you know - put you in jail, make you run up hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal costs. Even though we understand that political appointees take these jobs. We don't assume that the party in power is going to use that kind of power to advance its political interests.

Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.

We are political creatures but once we U. S. Attorneys get into office we must no longer be political.

I want there to be a real partnership between the Department of Justice in Washington and U.S. attorneys.