Frankly, the president, during the first opportunity I had to be in a Cabinet meeting, before we started the meeting, he said, Folks, before we begin this meeting, I'm going to call on General Ashcroft and ask him invite the wisdom and presence of God in what we do. And I thought to myself how ashamed I'd been that so many times in my life I had entered upon great important tasks and I had cheated myself and those that I had served of a blessing.

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed

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

I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.

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

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.