Fbi Quotes

• The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

  Leonard Peltier

  Government, Bigs, Big Business

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• Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

  William O. Douglas

  Umpires, History, Judging

  "The Court years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas". Book by William O. Douglas, 1980.

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• We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one world leader.

  Robert Muller

  Leadership, Moving, World Government

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• Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.

  Ridley Scott

  Looks, Officers

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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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• Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Done, Information, Gestapo

  Look magazine, June 14, 1956.

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• In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

  Charlton Heston

  Fire, Government, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counterterrorism purposes.

  John Ashcroft

  Purpose, Terrorism, Members

  "Ashcroft defends FBI's Mueller". www.cnn.com. May 31, 2002.

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• And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  War, Directors, Administration

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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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• If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that had no concern for human beings.

  Dick Durbin

  Believe, Fbi Agents, Mad

  Speech on the Senate floor, www.washingtontimes.com. June 16, 2005.

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• We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.

  Orrin Hatch

  Expectations, Facts, Sometimes

  "Ashcroft, senators offer plans to investigate FBI" by From Terry Freiden, www.cnn.com. June 20, 2001.

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• An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

  John Ashcroft

  Fbi Agents, People, Surfing

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• Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.

  Sarah Vowell

  Mean, Fbi Agents, President

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Aug 31, 2008

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• Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose.

  John Ashcroft

  Needs, Agents, Way

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• The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority

  John Ashcroft

  Long, Priorities, Robbery

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• The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.

  John Ashcroft

  America, Needs, Culture

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• The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination

  Anita Hill

  Sex, Race, Discrimination

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• I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts.

  Steve Buyer

  Together, Criminals, Flaws

  "FBI seeks stolen personal data on 26 million vets" by Terry Frieden and Marsha Walton, www.cnn.com. May 23, 2006.

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• During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Issues, Levels, Management

  "Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Calls Current 9/11 Investigation Inadequate". Interview with Jim Hogue, baltimorechronicle.com. May 7, 2004.

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• The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.

  Tom Hayden

  New York, Eye, Everything Happens For A Reason

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

  Robert Mueller

  Organization, Knows, One Thing

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• In fact, I had previously helped train one of the FBI agents who searched my apartment.

  Steven Hatfill

  Fbi Agents, Facts, Apartment

  Hatfill's Statement, www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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