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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. Janet Reno

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There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts. Janet Reno

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Until the day I die, or until the day I can't think anymore, I want to be involved in the issues that I care about. Janet Reno

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We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father. Janet Reno

We want to continue the efforts against domestic violence and spread the drug courts, and develop real effective means of providing treatment for drug abusers without having to have them arrested. Janet Reno

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I think, clearly, where you have a situation in which the Solicitor General tells me, 'I cannot in good faith argue a certainly legal position,' and if the president told us to argue that position, we would have to tell him, 'No, we can't do that, Mr. President.' Janet Reno

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Juveniles as well as adults need to know they're going to be punished for their violent acts. Janet Reno

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One of the problems in America is that everybody focuses on their own narrow little bit of the problem without connecting punishment and prevention together, without connecting the schools and the police together, without connecting the pediatricians and the social workers together. Janet Reno

I think that affirmative action programs can be very important. Janet Reno

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People should look at the government as 'us,' not as 'them' and not in terror. Janet Reno

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We want to look at everything we can do that's right and proper under federal law, and with federal laws to see that the children of America are given a chance to grow as strong, constructive, healthy human beings. It's the best investment we can possibly make in America. Janet Reno

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The first job I ever had in my life was in the Dade County Sheriff's Office in the Identification Bureau in the summer that I graduated from high school and was getting ready to go to college. Janet Reno

Police and prosecutors and the courts have got to talk together. Janet Reno

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Lawyers are very important people to me. Janet Reno

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I love lawyers. And I like to talk to lawyers, and I like to engage in a spirited discussion with lawyers. Janet Reno

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All lawyers are going to have to - if we really want to attain civil justice - address the issue of how complicated we have made the laws: what we have done to ensnarl the American people in bureaucratic rules and regulations that make access to services or compliance with the law sometimes difficult, if not impossible. Janet Reno

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We've got to understand that the ages of zero to three are the most formative years of a person's life, the time they learn the concept of reward and punishment and develop a conscience, and that 50 percent of all learned human response is learned in the first year of life. Janet Reno

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America, in all its institutions, whether it be the family or government, has forgotten and neglected its children. Janet Reno

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Let us develop an agenda for children that says we can do something about teen pregnancy. Let us make sure that parents are old enough, wise enough, and financially able to take care of their children. Janet Reno

The lawyers who really begin to address the problems of their clients address them without recourse to our courts, although that recourse is absolutely essential in providing leverage. Janet Reno

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