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"The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them."
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"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."

"I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it."

"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."

"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."

"The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly."
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"Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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