I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

Ask the American public if they want an FBI wiretap and they'll say, "no." If you ask them do they want a feature on their phone that helps the FBI find their missing child they'll say, "Yes."

The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected.

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

The State Department said the countries that are most stealing our best ideas also are our best allies.

I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.

I doubt that Congress would pass on the opportunity to make sure that our children were safe from terrorists.

The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th.

To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.

Promise me Deewan bhai, you will not let Safeena become another Bilal.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

... if the Republicans don't bring prosperity, who on earth is going to?

It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything Like boarders, and you don't see until It's all over how little there was to learn Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated.

You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability.

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars.