We want to do everything we can to make sure those private rights are secure.

I couldn't agree with you more. A lot of my colleagues have heard me talk when I was a member of the committee about finding that balance.

There is oversight and review within the Executive Branch, and heaven knows there's a lot of oversight here in the Congress over this.

Yes, I do, and I think it's important, obviously, for the government, all government entities.

I want to make sure that we do everything possible, first, to educate everyone so that they understand what is authorized and what is not authorized.

Finding that balance so that we don't take away private rights and at the same time use the necessary tools to determine what the bad guys are trying to do, that's important.

I think that it needs to be under my authority. And I've made that very, very clear.

I would and the intelligence community also sees it that way, the entire community.

I want to do that. I think more transparency needs to be offered to the public relative to what this is and what this isn't.

I do, and I've made that clear to the President and to his advisers, that that is where I stand.

I dreamt, I believed that life was a beauty, and I think that's what I was looking forward to. I awoke and found that life is a duty.