The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.

The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion, or their national origin. Such reports of violence and threats are in direct opposition to the very principles and laws of the United States and will not be tolerated.

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort

To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends.

Any citizen who's offended ... can leave the service.