Top 40 Janet Reno Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.”

— Janet Reno

2. “Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you’ll never lose.”

— Janet Reno

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3. “They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.”

— Janet Reno

4. “The good lawyer is the great salesman.”

— Janet Reno

5. “Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.”

— Janet Reno

6. “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

7. “I’m not fancy. I’m what I appear to be.”

— Janet Reno

8. “America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out.”

— Janet Reno

9. “We’re building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.”

— Janet Reno

10. “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

11. “People have it so good in America that they get bored very easily. And when people get bored they start protesting things.”

— Janet Reno

12. “Gun registration is not enough.”

— Janet Reno

13. “Haters are cowards. When confronted they often back down. We must resist haters.”

— Janet Reno

14. “We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.”

— Janet Reno

15. “These tanks were like a good rent-a-car.”

— Janet Reno

16. “It might be that some day I shall be drowned by the sea, or die of pneumonia from sleeping out at night, or be robbed and strangled by strangers. These things happen. Even so, I shall be ahead because of trusting the beach, the night and strangers.”

— Janet Reno

17. “I’m just an old maid with an attraction to men.”

— Janet Reno

18. “The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace.”

— Janet Reno

19. “Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.”

— Janet Reno

20. “At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.”

— Janet Reno

21. “Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and to extend that monopoly and undermine consumer choice.”

— Janet Reno

22. “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

23. “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

24. “I made the decision. I’m accountable.”

— Janet Reno

25. “I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can.”

— Janet Reno

26. “Nothing can make me madder than lawyers who don’t care about others.”

— Janet Reno

27. “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

28. “The Department of Justice transcends party because we’re building on the Weed and Seed program.”

— Janet Reno

29. “I have inquired for most of my adult life about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent. And I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point.”

— Janet Reno

30. “I made the decision long ago that to be afraid would be to diminish my life.”

— Janet Reno

31. “I always wait until a jury has spoken before I anticipate what they will do.”

— Janet Reno

32. “The president really shouldn’t be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take.”

— Janet Reno

33. “I worked with some wonderful people, tried my best and I feel comfortable.”

— Janet Reno

34. “If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.”

— Janet Reno

35. “Nobody should be owning a gun which does not have a sporting purpose.”

— Janet Reno

36. “It doesn’t matter to criminals if the event is called a gun show or a flea market – if they can buy guns.”

— Janet Reno

37. “But it is not our place to punish a father for his political beliefs or where he wants to raise his child. Indeed, if we were to start judging parents on the basis of their political beliefs, we would change the concept of family for the rest of time.”

— Janet Reno

38. “I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.”

— Janet Reno

39. “There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts.”

— Janet Reno

40. “I don’t think that the economy can absorb a massive flow of immigration that does not relate to the issue of persecution.”

— Janet Reno