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.

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

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."

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

The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.

If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our source is godly and eternal.

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