Every medium by which people communicate can be subject to exploitation by those with illegal intentions. Nevertheless, this is no reason to hand Big Brother the keys to unlock our e-mail diaries, open our ATM records, read our medical records, or translate our international communications.

This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.

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

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

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

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them