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

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort

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."

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.

All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department.

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.