I care a lot about privacy. I also care an awful lot about public safety. There continues to be a huge collision between those two things we care about.

In our counterterrorism cases and our counterintelligence cases, we can issue all kinds of - of layers of approval in the FBI, a national security letter to find out the subscriber to a particular telephone number and to find out what numbers that telephone number was in contact with. Not the content of those communications, but just the connection.

I'm in the business where I can't ever say there's no risk associated with someone.

We did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked. But, given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence.

Our need for public safety and our need for privacy are crashing into each other and we've got to sort that out.

I shouldn't talk about individuals in an open forum, at least without thinking about it better.

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.