Eric Holder

“Yeah, there was one case early on that I got a lot of grief about where I said, in essence, that bank was too big. And I actually was concerned at that point on the basis of what we were able to glean that if we did bring a criminal case against that financial institution, given how fragile the economy was, that it could have collateral i…”

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“Well, you know, it's interesting. I mean, I was an American history major, and although I didn't grow up in the segregated South in the way that Vivian and my wife Sharon did through my studies, I had a sense of what it was like. And certainly talking to Sharon.”

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“I think that's one of the things that I would hope the next Democratic president will talk about to make people understand that white workers have more in common with their black and brown counterparts than they do with the fat cats, you know, the special interests who this administration represents.”

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“People here enslaving them 250 years of slavery, 100 years of legal segregation in essence, an American apartheid system. We still are feeling the impacts of that in 2019. I think people need to acknowledge that. I see Mitch McConnell saying, well, you know, I wasn't alive when the slavery was going on.”

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