America has done superb things. It has done great things. It has been a leader in a whole range of things. But we are always a work in process.
Eric Holder (Attorney General): "I hear these things about 'let’s make America great again' and I think to myself, exactly when did you think America was great? Exactly when did you think America was great? It certainly wasn’t when people were enslaved. It certainly wasn’t when women didn’t have the right to vote. It certainly wasn’t when the LGBT community was denied the rights to which it was entitled. Ari Melber (MSNBC Interviewer): Does that phrase echo as discrimination in your ears? Eric Holder: "It takes us back to, I think, an American past that never in fact really existed..."