If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.
Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.
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.
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.
We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort.
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.