Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

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

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.

By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.

The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.

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