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"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."
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"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."

"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."

"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."

"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."

"You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data."

"Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application."

"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."

"Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already."
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"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."
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