they need to be empowered, and absolutely protected against retaliation, not just that objectively it won't occur

I think we're united in your efforts and the President's efforts to remove Qadhafi.

I am unhappy and frustrated with the most recent efforts by the administration to send a message in this area.

I welcome that response, and I would note that it marks a departure from many years ago when missing children were thought to be exclusively a local or State issue.

I hope that we will see prosecutions soon.

The inability to fill those 1,100 slots in my view would be really a disservice to the FBI and severely disadvantage this great organization, and I hope you agree with me in that.

In fact, in seeking to uphold statutes, lawyers begin, if they represent either a State or the United States, with the argument that every statute that is passed by this legislative body, which represents the people of the United States…

Your challenge is primarily in the area of enforcement, not so much the substantive authority that you would see the Congress improving.

I want to go back to the question that Senator Durbin was pursuing.

the most important protocol, though, that we have followed and we will continue to follow is what is in the best interest of the case.

civil rights is indeed this joint venture among Federal, State, and local partners.

As intolerable as injustice and intolerance are in this country, as dangerous as intolerance and injustice, is indifference...