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"Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution."
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"Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."
"This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to beat. At that precise moment, her firstborn son will become head of state, head of the armed forces, and head of the Church of England. In strict constitutional terms, this ought not to matter much. The English monarchy, as has been said, reigns but does not rule. From the aesthetic point of view it will matter a bit, because the prospect of a morose bat-eared and chinless man, prematurely aged, and with the most abysmal taste in royal consorts, is a distinctly lowering one."
"And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote."
"Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves."
"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."
"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational."
"I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag."
"That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow."
"We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution."
"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution."
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"People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists."
"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 Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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