So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed.

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

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

We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques.

I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find.

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.