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

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.

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.

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

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.

We are born and then we die. And in between lies only this strange darkness that we can’t break.

Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players.

There's more than one way to tell each other things, and there's more than one way to listen, too.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.

No matter whether a person belongs to the upper ranks or the lower, if he has not put his life on the line at least once he has cause for shame.

I've played with Mardy Fish a lot. Played with him, I think, two years ago in one of the weekend rounds.

If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.

Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.