All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department.

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.

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose.

The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.

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

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

Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.