I still have to work on patience.

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.

Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?

The oppressor is never as free as they think they are

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

I think if you'd had television cameras at Gettysburg, this would be two nations today. People would not have put up with that carnage if they saw it up close. We'd have elected McClellan in 1864.

Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.

I try to have no absolute nos. I love french fries, I like a good burger, and I like pie. And that's okay.

Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.

I consider my work great, as I am a great artist.

We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.

At the end of the day, the Washington establishment is going to go where they're going to go.