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" 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. "

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

Robert Mueller

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" Leaking of classified material is a concern. "

" I know that we will be judged in history by not only how we disrupt terrorism but how we protect the civil liberties and constitutional rights of all Americans, even Americans who don't wish us well. We must do all these things exceptionally well. "

" I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Robert Mueller

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

" The overwhelming majority of Muslims in this country and overseas are peaceful, law-abiding citizens. However, a small number of Muslims are members of fundamentalist sects sworn to the destruction of the United States. "

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

" What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas. "

" All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity set the expectations for behavior; they set a standard for our work. More than just a motto, for the men and women of the FBI, Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity is a way of life. "

" I've always loved investigations. "

" People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies. "

" 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 FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" In planning an attack, persons have various roles. "

" I love doing bank robberies, drug cases, homicides - as a prosecutor, that's what I thought I was going to be overseeing when I got to the bureau. "

" I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together. "

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

" I still have to work on patience. "

" I remember... seeing the first plane go into the towers and thinking: 'It's a beautiful day. Somebody really must have gotten off course to have the plane go into the towers.' "

" It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts. "