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.

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 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.

Because sometimes people who seem goodend up being not as good as you might have hoped.

We are created for the sake of love. When we experience love in family life, it is heavenly, but it is still only an image of the greater glory we hope to behold in heaven.

Don Quixote is not an imaginary person

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

The work comes into the world at an undetermined hour, from a still unknown, but it comes inevitably.

I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

The French don't know how to cook breakfast.