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.

In order to keep up with the criminals and to protect our national security, the solution is clear: we need legislation to ensure that telephone companies and other carriers provide law enforcement with access to this new technology.

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

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

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

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