I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.

I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal searches and seizures, unfettered government intrusion, a controlled media and a complete crackdown on free speech can we ensure the liberties of all people.

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.

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed

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

For the first time in a long time, our leaders in Washington understand what Americans of all religious backgrounds have long held to be true: through faith, all things are possible.