The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th.

The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected.

Ask the American public if they want an FBI wiretap and they'll say, "no." If you ask them do they want a feature on their phone that helps the FBI find their missing child they'll say, "Yes."

The State Department said the countries that are most stealing our best ideas also are our best allies.

If five years from now we solve the access problem, but what we're hearing is all encrypted, I'll probably, if I'm still here, be talking about that in a very different way: the objective is the same. The objective is for us to get those conversations whether they're by an alligator clip or ones and zeros. Whoever they are, whatever they are, I need them.

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.