HOLDER QUOTES:
“I’ve been doing all of these things all the time Darrell Issa and his band have been nipping at my heels. They’ve been nipping, but I’ve been walking.”
“I’ve become a symbol of what they don’t like about the positions this Justice Department has taken,” he said. “I am also a proxy for the president in an election year. You have to be exceedingly naive to think that vote was about … documents.”
“It’s a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity,” said Holder, a former judge. “I came to Washington in the late ’70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn’t feel the need to question the other person’s character. And that’s where we are now in Washington with at least one part of the Republican Party. That’s what they do, almost as a matter of course.”
[Source: Washington Post; Eric Holder says Republicans have made him a 'proxy' to attack President Obama; By Sari Horwitz; July 2, 2012]
