We all must make hatemongers unwelcome in our towns and communities. And we must stand by the heroes in this struggle, the police and county prosecutors who stand up to the extremists.
As a prosecutor, I served victims; I fought to keep communities safe, and in every instance, I knew that it was my job to protect individuals' privacy.
I regard myself as a grand juror waiting to hear the evidence from the prosecutor, the Judiciary Committee. I'm diametrically opposed to Nixon and everything he stands for, but I want to see the evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors first.
When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.
That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.
I think there is no greater job anybody can have than having been a prosecutor.
I think that sometimes the most intelligent things that prosecutors do is when they exercise their discretion not to go forward with a case.
We shouldn't tell prosecutors to 'pick and choose' what laws to uphold.
As a border prosecutor, I've put criminals behind bars who worked for some of the most violent cartels in the world.
I love doing bank robberies, drug cases, homicides - as a prosecutor, that's what I thought I was going to be overseeing when I got to the bureau.
The role of the federal prosecutor and the purpose of a criminal investigation are well-defined.
As a prosecutor and a senator, one of my main criminal justice priorities has been enforcing and reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, a bill with deep roots in Minnesota, seeds planted by former Senator Paul Wellstone and his wife Sheila.
Before I was a prosecutor, I was a defense attorney. I took a cut in pay because I wanted to stand up for the victims.
