The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.

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.

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."

Any citizen who's offended ... can leave the service.

Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.

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

Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.