Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency,….

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America..

What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attac….

No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism..

Leaking of classified material is a concern..

So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, t….

I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mea….

We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that ha….

In the future, the cyber threat will equal or even eclipse the terrorist threat..

I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find..

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make..

The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack..

I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on ….

We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently ….

It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts..

All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to inter….

In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law….

But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happenin….

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants..

In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the….

I didn't know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it's tremendously professional..