i want to thank them for their service. i have confidence that loretta lynch will exceed the high standards. she is cut from the same cloth. they embody the mantra of their predecessor, the man after whom this building is named. "the purpose of life is to contribute to making things better." five generations, your brother is also a baptist minister. your dad taught you to stand up for what's right and speak out for what's just and get up when you get knocked down and move on. if there is anything you need to know about loretta lynch, she excelled in everything she has done.

she has never been limited by lower expectations of others. she has always exceeded the expectations set for herself or she was at the top of her class in high school. she decided she wanted to go to harvard. she did well as in this hiring longline your. -- as an aspiring young lawyer. for 30 years she has been a fair-minded independent lawyer and prosecutor. she has shown the resolve to jail terrorists, mobsters, and gang members. she rooted up public corruption. she summoned determination to bring down a financial rosters and child abusers. she has shown a dogged pursuit to bust human trafficking rings

that she is encountered. she is shown in annual commitment to the rule of law and basic human right. she forged striving for accountability in the crucible of genocide in rwanda. as a top federal prosecutor, she has worked with and learn from law enforcement officers and. you are going to have a great partner in this one, director. she has unimpeachable credibility to strengthen relations between law enforcement and communities. people often say that i trust those people who arrive at the right decision not through an intellectual examination of the argument but when it's starts

there got and goes to their heart and is articulated by a fine mind. that is who this woman is. that is how loretta gets it right. the president and i can't wait to start working with her. she will enhance the capacity to combat cyber attacks and cybercrime. she will prosecute those who prey on the most in need of our protection. she will continue to lead with her humble yet fierce determination to stand up for what is right, do what is just and not yield to anyone. i will close with this. i imagine being the daughter of an english teacher, maya

angelou's words have never been far away from her. maya angelou once said, "if someone shows you who they are believe them. if someone it shows you who they are, believe them." it's profound. she has shown us her entire life who she is. believe her. i believe her and the president leaves are and all of the people in this department will believe her. you have shown who you are and everything you've done. you've upheld the values of the oath you are about to take. we believe you. to the staff of the department of justice, you are the best of the best and with loretta, you

have the best of the best as your leader. all the qualities she brings to the job of attorney general are because of what she has learned as a federal prosecutor. she is one of you. to the american people who are blessed with another remarkable public servant to lead this department, i am now going to swear you in. the whole family, come on up here. you are going to stand here. i want to put your left hand on the bible and raise your right hand.

loretta lynch: i will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic. i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. i take this obligation freely without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion. i will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which i'm about to enter. so help me god. vice president biden: congratulations. [applause]

loretta lynch: here we are. i have to say as i looked out on all of you gathered today, it seems like such an understatement to say my heart is full. it is full of the most deep and profound gratitude. i must thank so many people who made it possible for me to stand here. i have to thank the president

for his faith in me and asking me to lead the department love. mr. vice president, thank you for your comments today. thank you for your support and your wise counsel through this process. i have to thank senator schumer and senator leahy. thank you so much for being here. thank you for your support not just today but over the years and doing what i thought was impossible, making the senate a welcoming place for me and my family. thank you so much. thanks to my wonderful family. we are quite the force multiplier. many of you have come to know my father to this process. he has been in every hearing and every vote.

it did not just start now. i remember looking up and seeing him in the gallery at my first trial. he was there for everyone. he has encouraged me in all things, even when my choices were not ones he would have made for me. he has been the best of fathers and i thank him. [applause] i hope you know that without him, i would not be standing here before you today having just been sworn in as the 83rd attorney general of the united states of america, just one week after his 83rd birthday. [applause] my mother could not be here today, but she is never far from

my thoughts here it she grew up in a world where she was told what she could not do. or who she could not be. she knew that she could soar. she did. she raised a daughter she told whatever the dream, to be a lawyer, a prosecuting, or the attorney general, of course you can. i thank her as well. i have to thank my wonderful husband who has supported all of my choices in my dreams. i would not trade his love and support for all the riches in the world are in a to me, they are all the riches of the world. [applause] thanks to my colleagues and friends here in the department of justice in the eastern is to

-- district of new york and beyond. tremendous thanks go to people who could not be here today, the thousands of people, many of whom i never met personally, who expressed their support through this process. to the churches and schools who wrote letters and made calls to people on the street who stopped me and sometimes said just a word or two, please know that those words made all the difference to me as i traveled this road and i thank you. i thank you as i prepare to join the outstanding people of this department of justice. it has been the honor of my life and a privilege of my profession to have stood a shoulder to shoulder with you twice before. you are the ones who make real the promise of justice and redress for all americans.

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. all of us at the department are here because at some point we said, i want to be a lawyer. if 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, whether attorney or agent, staff or principal, is the desire to leave the world a better place for us having been part of it. the challenge in that for all of us that love this department and the law is to use the law to that end. to not just represent the law and enforce the law, but to use it to make real the promise of america, the promise of fairness and equality and liberty and

justice for all. i have been reminded that we are all just here for a time whether it's in this building or on this earth. the values we hold here will live on long after we have left the stage. it's our responsibility and our mission while we are here to breathe life into them and imbue them with the strength of our conviction and the weight of our efforts. i know this can be done. i am here to tell you that if a little girl from north airline -- north carolina who used to tell her grandfather in the field to lift her up on the back of his mule so she could see way up high, we can do anything. [applause]

we can imbue our criminal justice system with both strength and fairness for the protection of those victims and the rights of all. we can restore trust and faith in our laws and in those of us who enforce them. we can protect the most vulnerable among us and the scourge of modern-day slavery so antithetical to the values forged in blood in this country. we can protect the growing cyber world and we can give those in our care protection from terrorism and the security of their civil liberties. we will do this as we have accomplished all things great and small. working together and moving

forward and using justice as our compass. i cannot wait to begin that journey with all of you. i thank you for being here today. not just in this room, but in my life over the years. thank you so much. i look forward to working with you as we make real the manifest promise of this, our department of justice. thank you. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [no>> remarkable partnerships

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