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.

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.

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

In every aspect of my life, I tend to look for the deeper side.

Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.

By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

So to be standing here, this was really, truly, honestly never part of anything we even imagined in our wildest dreams.

I would rather obey than work miracles.

We belong to a tradition where we treat the entire universe as our family. For me, globalisation is the manifestation of nationalisation. There is no contradiction between the two.

Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution.

I feel that I was a good all-around player, I had good speed, a good arm and could play the outfield.