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

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.

A best friend is he who hurts you with their love and feels you when you're hurt.

The only power that exists is inside ourselves.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

It's hard to keep a straight face when I just wanna smile- Fun.

We're a superpower with a third world grid.

"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.

Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States.

A crisis event often explodes the illusions that anchor our lives.

language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.

The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of the mind, when it takes up one object and excludes all others.