Lynch: I Will Use Office ‘to Make Real the Promise of America, the Promise of Fairness’

‘To not just represent the law and to enforce the law, but to use it to make real the promise of America, the promise of fairness, the promise of equality, of liberty, and justice for all’

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LORETTA LYNCH: "I am honored beyond words to step into this larger role today as your attorney general, as we continue the core work of our mission, the protection of the American people. Now, all of us here at the department are here because at some point, and maybe we were just a little girl or a little boy, we said, I want to be a lawyer. I want to be a law enforcement officer. I want to be a federal agent. I want to be someone's hero. At the heart of that, for me certainly and for all of us, whether attorney or agent, staff or principal, is the desire to leave this world a better place for us having been a part of it. And the challenge in that for you, for me, for all of us that love this department and love the law, is to use the law to that end. To not just represent the law and to enforce the law, but to use it to make real the promise of America, the promise of fairness, the promise of equality, of liberty, and justice for all."

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