The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.

I didn't know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it's tremendously professional.

The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts.

All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean.

No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.