The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States

Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.

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.

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

The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.

The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime

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