Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.

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.

Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you.

[The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with God that is chosen and not commanded.

The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society. ...What am I doing to shape the values of the society?

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort