The 19 hijackers that came over here to commit the attack on Sept. 11, there were those that were at the bottom of the line. There were those who wer….

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war..

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

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….

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

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

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….

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

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

And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main ….

But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement..

There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. Even that is merging into one category: those that have b….

And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing….

I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and sa….

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….

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

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 ….

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….

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

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

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….