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  • born 1960
  • 155 quotes

James Comey (born 1960), is quoted 155 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Terrorists, Al, Qaeda and Fbi.

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Senator Schumer is a partisan.

I'm a big fan of the rule of law.

A lot of terrorists fled out of Afghanistan.

WikiLeaks is a important focus of our attention.

There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America.

Encryption threatens to lead all of us to a very dark place.

We all, white and black, carry various biases around with us.

I see the government operating the way the founders intended.

We've made great progress coordinating better as a government.

We investigate in secret so that we don't smear innocent people.

ISIL is not your parents' al Qaeda. It's a very different model.

We have no basis to conclude she [Hillary Clinton] lied to the FBI.

We've investigated Chattanooga as a terror attack from the beginning.

Martha Stewart is being prosecuted not for who she is but what she did.

Not all of the Islamic State killers are going to die on the battlefield.

If conduct is intentional, it could subject some of the criminal liability.

I believe that the Holocaust is the most significant event in human history.

Your parents' al Qaeda was a very different model than the threat we face today.

Our obligation is to refuse to let bad win, to refuse to let evil hold the field.

Folks who think organised crime is a thing of the past are only kidding themselves.

ISIL does something al-Qaida would never imagine: they test people by tasking them.

I'm in the business where I can't ever say there's no risk associated with someone.

As a communication medium, social media is a critical tool for terror groups to exploit.

The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.

Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA.

I shouldn't talk about individuals in an open forum, at least without thinking about it better.

I don't know if it's true or not that folks are less likely to tell police when they see things.

After years of police work, officers often can't help but be influenced by the cynicism they feel.

At some point, there is going to be a terrorist diaspora out of Syria like we've never seen before.

We have perpetrated a myth in our society that being brave means not being afraid, but that's wrong.

There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

We don't want to put people in jail unless we prove that they knew they were doing something they shouldn't do.

Our focus is and should be on the leakers, not those that are obtaining it as part of legitimate newsgathering.

Our need for public safety and our need for privacy are crashing into each other and we've got to sort that out.

I know there are other Elton Simpsons out there. But I also know there are Elton Simpsons out there I cannot see.

The notion that we would market devices that would allow someone to place themselves beyond the law troubles me a lot.

Many of us develop different flavors of cynicism that we work hard to resist because they can be lazy mental shortcuts.

The threat that ISIL presents and poses to the United States is very different in kind, in type and degree than al Qaeda.

I believe the job of the FBI Director is to be as transparent as possible with the American people because we work for them.

There is evidence that Democrates were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.

There is no doubt something has happened that is lasting in terms of attractiveness of the nightmare that is the Islamic State.

I was born in 1960 into a more violent America than we had in 2014. We haven't been in such a good place for more than 50 years.

The fact of the matter is that the United States faces real threats from criminals, terrorists, spies, and malicious cyber actors.

I have trouble applying the 'whistle-blower' label to someone who just disagrees with the way our country is structured and operates.

The threat here focuses primarily on troubled souls in America who are being inspired or enabled online to do something violent for ISIL.

People view the police not as allies, but as antagonists, and think of them not with respect or gratitude, but with suspicion and distrust.

Serious debates are taking place about how law enforcement personnel relate to the communities they serve, about the appropriate use of force.

Terrorists, in ungoverned spaces, disseminate poisonous propaganda and training materials to attract troubled souls around the world to their cause.

We often speak of domestic terrorism and hate crimes in the same breath, and there is a fine line between the two, and certainly overlap in some cases.

The people of the FBI sacrifice much for their country, and I am proud to lead this organization of dedicated agents, analysts, and professional staff.

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