There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.

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.

We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

In recent years, research into the prevention and treatment of arthritis has led to measures that successfully reduce pain and improve the quality of life for millions.

The Arthritis Prevention, Control and Cure Act of 2005 is bipartisan legislation directing funding and promoting education and research toward the goal of preventing, treating and curing arthritis.

Meth production and use is a serious problem in Kentucky and across the country. Clearly, there is a growing need for a national strategy to combat this crisis. Increasing public awareness is a significant means for prevention.

The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis.

Prevention is better than cure.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.

I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.

Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.

Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.