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We have the authority to take action, but responsible authority means not only being able to take action, but knowing when and how to take that action.
We have the authority to take action, but responsible authority means not only being able to take action, but knowing when and how to take that action.
 Janet Reno

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?
 Janet Reno
I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.
 Janet Reno
I made the decision. I'm accountable.
 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
If America's tv and movie producers are unwilling to clean up their act... when it comes to sex, bloodshed and violence in their programming... the government stands ready to step in.
 Janet Reno