There are moments in life when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word it overflows and its secret Spilt on the ground like water can never be gathered together.

From you we have learned what we at least value to separate Church and State and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning to religious liberty and to individual and National freedom.

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.

During the Cold War we gathered information by listening to the Soviets taking pictures of the Soviets and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.

We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.