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The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counter-terrorism purposes.
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The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.
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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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The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.
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I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.
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We've got a major problem in our culture, as it relates to the Internet and pornography and child pornography.
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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.
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Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.
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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.
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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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There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.
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If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
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We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.
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Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.
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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.
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