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" I've always loved investigations. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence. "

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

Counterterrorism

" 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. "

" I still have to work on patience. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Anyplace we go in the world, when someone asks us what we do, we feel an immense pride in saying, 'FBI.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Working Together

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

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

" 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. "