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."

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

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them

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.

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world

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