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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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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"

"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."
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"An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs."

"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."

"Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world."

"If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before."

"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."

"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."

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

"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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