The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say...

This is my first opportunity to visit this part of North Africa, so I am going to be able to go back home and talk about this beautiful country and encourage Americans to travel here.

I have long ties to the women’s community.

You can’t be what you don’t see. I didn’t think about being a doctor. I didn’t even think about being a clerk in a store, I’d never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you’d looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say...

But I can tell that once, and if, and when this issue gets to be, under real terms, investigated, you will be seeing certain people that we know from this country standing trial; and they...

As far as Iraq is concerned, let’s not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and...

Foreign nations have begun to include information warfare in their war college curricula with respect to both defensive and offensive applications.

I’ll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration’s plans.

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

It came from counter-intelligence, and certain criminal investigations, and issues that have to do with money laundering operations.

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

I think our track record is pretty clear: in America we are pursuing a vision that will continue to open up the world to free trade.

The privacy work was part of what was canceled. But I think it should continue. And I think that eventually it will be continued. I’m an optimist.

We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they’re finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to...

And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to go down to our command center and get things going.

People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.

We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.

This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.

I have to admit, in January and February I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn’t that I didn’t know what I was doing, but we didn’t have all...

But I’ve gravitated more towards the drum set.

In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.

But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money – a lot of money. And it boils down to people and their connections with this money, and that’s the...

As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government’s role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.

I didn’t particularly want to come back into government and run it. However, in the end, it seemed like the only way we could get it off the ground.

I’m pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule.

Onstage, it’s more of a momentary pressure.

The 19 hijackers that came over here to commit the attack on Sept. 11, there were those that were at the bottom of the line. There were those who were the principal conspirators. There were...

The president welcomes peaceful protests – it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that’s why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm.

I will continue to stay very focused on the economy.

The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn’t use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.

Well, it took everybody a while to build relationships of trust, whether it was the White House staff with the cabinet agencies.

And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn’t an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn’t committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for...

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war and so it’s understandable that we would be going through a period of...

I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn’t expect it.

Even on the drum level, it’s all about stating your theme, going back to certain things that need to be emphasized, not doing fills for the sake of doing fills.

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don’t think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

As you know, I spent 30 years of my life in the private sector.

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to...

I’ve spent my whole life with people underestimating me.

Sometimes the band can’t fully hear your fill, so they come in differently. So I’ve also learned not to really step out too much, because you sacrifice the band when you do that.

The FBI’s principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest.

I will stay very focused on my responsibilities as Secretary of Commerce and the economy’s doing well. I mean, you asked about some of the challenges that we have or what is going on in...

TIA was being used by real users, working on real data – foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.

What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year...