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

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" We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques. "

" 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. "

" I am convinced that there are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be. And even they are converging into one category: companies that have been hacked and will be hacked again. "

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

" The 19 hijackers that came over here to commit the attack on Sept. 11, there were those that were at the bottom of the line. There were those who were the principal conspirators. There were those who were the pilot. Everybody has a role. "

" Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us. "

" And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack. "

" For the men and women of the FBI, bravery is reflected not only in the physical courage often necessary in the job. It can be seen in the courage of conviction, in the courage to act with wisdom in the face of fear, and in the courage it takes to admit mistakes and move forward. "

" My admonition is, 'No counterterrorism lead goes uncovered.' "

Counterterrorism

" So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants. "

" 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. "

" Perimeter defense may not matter if the enemy is inside the gates. "

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

" Secondly, not only have we put additional agents on counterterrorism, but we've also built up our analytical structure so that we're better positioned to analyze the information we have. "

" And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this. "

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

" 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. "

" In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement. "

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

" For most of us, fidelity is faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty. For the men and women of the FBI, fidelity also means fidelity to country. It means fidelity to justice and the law, fidelity to the Constitution, fidelity to equality and liberty. "

" Computer hackers do not need to know each other's real names, or even live on the same continent, to steal millions in mere hours. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I still have to work on patience. "