Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

Ask the American public if they want an FBI wiretap and they'll say, "no." If you ask them do they want a feature on their phone that helps the FBI find their missing child they'll say, "Yes."

I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.

The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected.

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

The State Department said the countries that are most stealing our best ideas also are our best allies.

I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.

I doubt that Congress would pass on the opportunity to make sure that our children were safe from terrorists.

The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

. . . I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.

But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno.

Life is a way of perfection. You need to work on yourself. You become a good person. If you do your work you will discover sublime feelings.

You lower the [tax] rate, you will motivate and incentivize more people to put more capital at risk to create more jobs.

A story has been thought to its conclusion when it has taken its worst possible turn.

This question about Iraq has gotten personal.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship

Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.