We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war and so it’s understandable that we would be going through a period of...

I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn’t expect it.

Even on the drum level, it’s all about stating your theme, going back to certain things that need to be emphasized, not doing fills for the sake of doing fills.

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don’t think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

As you know, I spent 30 years of my life in the private sector.

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to...

I’ve spent my whole life with people underestimating me.

Sometimes the band can’t fully hear your fill, so they come in differently. So I’ve also learned not to really step out too much, because you sacrifice the band when you do that.

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

There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest.

I will stay very focused on my responsibilities as Secretary of Commerce and the economy’s doing well. I mean, you asked about some of the challenges that we have or what is going on in...

TIA was being used by real users, working on real data – foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.

What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year...

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...

And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they...

We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.

We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education...

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a...

I liked how it came out, and that’s one thing I really was always thinking about, my meter. It’s got to groove. It’s got to move people.

So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed.

During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI.

All of those standard operating procedures were followed, which is again why we believe that the food supply has been protected.

At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.

I really believe that we don’t have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.

We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it – a lot more than what we did on our first album.

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

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying...

Laura Bush is the same way. I mean, they both, um, understand, they understand the challenges of the moment and understand the responsibilities, he understands the responsibilities he has to protect the national security of...

Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.

You don’t want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.

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.

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.

An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

We believe that it is through economic development and economic growth that we will lead the world to greater peace and prosperity.

By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.

I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.

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

However, I keep reminding them that this issue is not a new issue that has come out for this election. This issue has been in the courts for two years and two months now.

We are, in an abundance of caution, beginning, as of last night, a recall of that product. And we’re tracing forward to see where that product went.

I mean, there is no question about the fact that we had a boom in our economy and in the stock market in the late nineties and in 2000.

I think if I had to do it over again, I’d do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.

Sex education has to do with what’s in people’s head.

We knew we wanted to take the strong points of our groove and emphasize them as well, and we knew we wanted to just totally experiment.

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.

As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.

Let me tell you the basic fundamental principle by which we sit down and negotiate agreements with our friends: nobody wins unless we all win.

We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn’t preclude some good ideas.