Robert Mueller Quotes

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• There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. Even that is merging into one category: those that have been hacked and will be again.

  Robert Mueller

  Two, Type, Categories

  "FBI Director: Cybercrime will eclipse terrorism" by Stacy Cowley, money.cnn.com. March 2, 2012.

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

  Robert Mueller

  Eclipse, Cyber, Threat

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

  Robert Mueller

  Optimistic, Optimism, Able

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• 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.

  Robert Mueller

  Order, Judging, Wire

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

  Robert Mueller

  Differences, Analysis, Opinion

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• Leaking of classified material is a concern.

  Robert Mueller

  Concern, Materials

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• 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.

  Robert Mueller

  War, Women, Land

  Quoted in Look, 5 Mar. 1957

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

  Robert Mueller

  Thinking, Agents, World

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• 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.

  Robert Mueller

  Meaningful, Important, President

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• 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.

  Robert Mueller

  Mean, Always Trying, Agents

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

  Robert Mueller

  Purpose, Warrants

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• I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.

  Robert Mueller

  Mean, Differences, Facts

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• And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.

  Robert Mueller

  September 11, Clerks, Agents

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• But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.

  Robert Mueller

  Thinking, Years, Law

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• In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement.

  Robert Mueller

  Years, Law, Numbers

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• People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.

  Robert Mueller

  Wall, Agency, People

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

  Robert Mueller

  Organization, Fbi, Knows

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• They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them.

  Robert Mueller

  Country, Opportunity, Fbi Agents

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• In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also.

  Robert Mueller

  New York, People, Police

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• What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas.

  Robert Mueller

  Agency, Numbers, America

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

  Robert Mueller

  Confidence, America, People

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• But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.

  Robert Mueller

  Law, Effort, September 11

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• We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.

  Robert Mueller

  Jobs, Technology, Giving

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• And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.

  Robert Mueller

  Justice, Support, Agents

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• 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.

  Robert Mueller

  Agency, Nsa, Information

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