Jefferson Powell Quotes
The current attorney general is known for having had a focus on children and issues concerning children. That kind of focus and devotion of attention and energy is something that is obviously and legitimately in the attorney general's prerogative. But no, he or she must enforce the laws that Congress chooses to enact. 
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That Roberts is a conservative Republican willing and no doubt enthusiastic to be part of Bush I, we already knew... We will not learn much else from any memo from his time at the solicitor general's office unless [improbably] a personal note from him to the attorney general was revealed.
- Jefferson Powell
The department has a lively and strong sense of tradition and even if one was disposed to ignore that, it would be awfully hard to do that in the teeth of all these very smart civil servants who say 'No, this is not what we do, or this is the position the department has always taken,'
- Jefferson Powell