There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism

The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority

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."

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

We're going to protect and honor the Constitution, and I don't have the authority to set it aside.... If I had the authority to set it aside, this would be a dangerous government, and I wouldn't respect it.

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