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

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.

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.

Bermimpilah, karena Tuhan akan memeluk mimpi-mimpi itu.

Vermeer's skill was in combining few colors, mixing little and using layers of lakes and varnishes to build up the illusion of life

My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.

The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.

Everything that's happening to you, is what's suppose to be happening to you. So just relax.

The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless.

It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.

The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.

True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it.