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

I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain it. But if it was not functioning at optimum levels, we would be doing the country a disservice by continuing to do things "like we've always done them."

The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority

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.

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism

Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.

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