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 happening in the United States.

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

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 been hacked and will be again.

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

So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed.

Leaking of classified material is a concern.

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

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 investigative work.

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

They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them.

Losing some data is possible... after too much of it... everything remains possible.

I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night. I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to meet his eye.

Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how - and know that they want to follow you.

Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.

I've always relied on producing more material than I need. With each of my published novels I've written around four times the amount of material that's ended up in the book.

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.