Explore Quotes by Robert Mueller

I've always loved investigations.

I still have to work on patience.

If I have the honor of being confirmed by the Senate, I will make it my highest priority to restore the public's confidence in the FBI and to re-earn the faith and trust of the American people.

You don't eat before your troops eat, and you don't ask your troops to do anything you won't do, too.

I think, in the wake of Sept. 11, it's important for the American public to understand that to the extent that there are individuals within the United States who would undertake terrorist attacks, that we are doing something to address that.

I love doing bank robberies, drug cases, homicides - as a prosecutor, that's what I thought I was going to be overseeing when I got to the bureau.

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, it became clear that the FBI's number one priority must be the prevention of 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 since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.

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 and more expeditiously.

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 said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.

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

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

Anyplace we go in the world, when someone asks us what we do, we feel an immense pride in saying, 'FBI.'

I know that we will be judged in history by not only how we disrupt terrorism but how we protect the civil liberties and constitutional rights of all Americans, even Americans who don't wish us well. We must do all these things exceptionally well.

In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.

I love prosecuting cases, and I love doing investigations, particularly homicide investigations and the like, and that's why I became a prosecutor.

Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity set the expectations for behavior; they set a standard for our work. More than just a motto, for the men and women of the FBI, Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity is a way of life.

I do believe when there are advances in technology that it is important to balance the privacy interests affected with the investigative take that you might get from that technology.

I am confident that every action we took as the FBI detained individuals in the wake of 9/11 was appropriately done.

We need to take lessons learned from fighting terrorism and apply them to cyber crime.