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" The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I still have to work on patience. "

" 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. "

" As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We cannot turn back the clock. We cannot undo the impact of technology. Nor would we want to. "

" Leaking of classified material is a concern. "

" 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. "

" For the FBI and for the United States, the war on terrorism is a complex and perplexing issue. It is as complex and perplexing as any issue we have ever faced. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always loved investigations. "