"I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court."

"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 Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them."

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

"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."

"Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution."

"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."

"The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information."

"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."

"What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world."

"Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate."

"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."

"It's a different world."

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

"We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed."

"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."

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

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

"The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'."