I doubt that Congress would pass on the opportunity to make sure that our children were safe from terrorists.

I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.

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

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 country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th.

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.