People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

We're going to protect and honor the Constitution, and I don't have the authority to set it aside.... If I had the authority to set it aside, this would be a dangerous government, and I wouldn't respect it.

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose.

We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion.

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.