Few loans could have less security than a credit card.

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security

In short, even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions the problem is growing even faster and we are falling further behind,

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.

I was concerned about who he would put in there as FBI director because he had expressed antipathy for the FBI, for the director. I was going to stay there and make sure that he couldn't replace me.