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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to go down to our command center and get things going. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I still have to work on patience. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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