Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

The 19 hijackers that came over here to commit the attack on Sept. 11, there were those that were at the bottom of the line. There were those who were the principal conspirators. There were those who were the pilot. Everybody has a role.

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

In the future, the cyber threat will equal or even eclipse the terrorist threat.

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

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.