How you define a problem shapes how you address it.

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people.

The whole technological revolution and evolution gives man tremendous capabilities for good, and it also gives individuals tremendous capability to carry out what result in lethal action.

The misunderstandings - or, what really bothers me are the intentional misrepresentations of the facts, which take place on a fairly regular basis. To think that we, people who are involved in counterterrorism, do not care about civilian casualties or deaths or injuries, is just totally, totally wrong.

Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.

I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations.