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.

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.

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

It's a different world.

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.

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.

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.

The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counter-terrorism purposes.

We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack.

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

The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States.

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

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

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

The path we have chosen is constitutional.

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

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.

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

The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.

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

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.

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

The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.

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.

We've got a major problem in our culture, as it relates to the Internet and pornography and child pornography.

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

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight.

I don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared.

Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.

What you risk reveals what you value.

For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk.

When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.

I'm fighting for small businesses. I'm not fighting for big oil. Don't be confused. And there are thousands of businesses in this state that are at great risk. Meanwhile, the country keeps guzzling the oil, but we're out of work down here. We need to get back to work to build this region, and we intend to do so.

Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free.

I feel that David took a risk with me. I have a sense that by starting off in the theatre and going off to do films you are seen to sell out in some way. I don't hold truck with that, but you can't stop people from feeling it.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.