You are not going to put 100,000 police officers on the streets overnight and do the right job. To put them on the streets, to see that they’re properly trained; you have to do it in an orderly way over a period of time. – Janet Reno
We’ve got to make sure that the young, violent, serious juvenile offender is punished, that it’s fair punishment, that it’s punishment that fits the crime and that is understood and that is anticipated and expected. – Janet Reno
While service in the Department of Justice is itself one of the highest forms of public service, the Department further strides to increase access to justice for all and to strengthen our communities. – Janet Reno
There are those who profess to support law enforcement but who have attempted to undermine the efforts of hard-working officers who make difficult decisions. – Janet Reno
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
It’s fine to get paid and get a big verdict, but to go out and represent people, sometimes in unglamorous ways, is really what lawyering is all about. – Janet Reno
Diversity is valued, and it is prized. We learn to appreciate each other and each other’s struggles. From diversity, we draw our enormous and our lasting strength. – Janet Reno
Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it. – Janet Reno
What we must do is to sit down together as reasonable people and make our government do what is right, and stop doing what may be wrong-headed or wasteful. – Janet Reno
I’m vitally interested in cyber crime and in preparing law enforcement for a time when crime is international in its origins and its consequences. – Janet Reno
I know from personal experience what it’s like to be discriminated against. I remember people telling me, ‘Ladies don’t become lawyers,’ and now I look at America and know what can be done. – Janet Reno
What good is telling America’s children that they will have equal opportunity for education if they don’t have the skills that will even get them to the point of benefiting from education, because they didn’t have the child care, the health care that would enable them to grow as strong and constructive human beings? – Janet Reno
If you have a good community behind you and a good family supporting you, then, when the buck stops with you, there is the strength of that community and that family to draw upon. – Janet Reno
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
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
I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt. – Janet Reno
What makes our country unique is its commitment to being open, to making its leaders accountable. – Janet Reno
Most lawyers aren’t trial lawyers. Most lawyers, even trial lawyers, don’t get their problems solved in a courtroom. We like to go to court. It seems heroic to go to court. We think we’re the new, great advocates, better than anything we’ve seen on TV, and we come home exhilarated by having gone to court. – Janet Reno
Schools can do extraordinary things given the chance; teachers can do remarkable things if we eliminate the paperwork that sometimes binds them and give them a chance to really teach in our schools. – Janet Reno
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