The path we have chosen is constitutional.

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.

If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

You have what it takes to be a victorious independent fearless woman.

In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

We can't do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud.

When you get the first knock, it kind of wakes you up: you know, they are men, and it is not like Under-18s when you can take loads of knocks and know you will be fine, that you won't feel anything after the game. You definitely get harder knocks, but it helps. You just get up and get on with the game, and then you can give it to them back.

I've always had not just an affection but a real love for the theater family in New York, and I really feel it is a family. I'm so touched by the generosity of everyone there.

Water which is too pure has no fish.

I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that's when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I'm not necessarily the good girl.

Southerners can claim kin with anybody. It's one of our most dextrous talents.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

I don't know how much you know about me, but I kind of have my fingers in a lot of different pies.

I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.

Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.

If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.