I think, as a professional courtesy, when the president asks you to dinner, you go.

I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.

What I said was, ‘the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens’ e-mails.’ I stand by that.

We must remain mindful of the potential impact of over-correcting the authorizations of the intelligence community.

Some of you expressed surprise that I showed up-so many emails to read!

We're talking about nuclear war with North Korea. We're talking about Russia. Does it feel like the world has shifted? Are we all just in Donald Trump's reality show now?

The FBI is unique in that it straddles both law enforcement and counterintelligence.

I have sort of a visceral aversion to the prominence of the either active duty, in the case of General McMaster, or retired general officers filling political, civilian positions.

There's nobody that wants the president to be successful more than I.

The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life.

If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.

Withdrawal and advance are two defaults within one second, but each second of error is critical and threatening in a crucial time.

It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.

A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage

Lewis Strauss is one of my best friends.

If I have a weakness, it's that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.

When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song.