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

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.

The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority.

Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.

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

To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.

There's nothing more rewarding or important than to be involved in God's work of redemption.

The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.

The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved,

How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.

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

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

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.

I think all we should legislate is morality.

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.

A trustee has a responsibility to guard the assets of others with a higher degree of care than he does his own.

Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you.

Only God, no other kings!

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

The path we have chosen is constitutional.

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

[Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.

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

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

If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our source is godly and eternal.

We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God.

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

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