Famous quotes by Public Servants

"Leaking of classified material is a concern"

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

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

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"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, Public Servant

"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, Public Servant

"Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks"

Pierre Salinger, Public Servant

"Whole generations have forgotten history"

Pierre Salinger, Public Servant

"I am not very introspective"

Pierre Salinger, Public Servant

"American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President"

Pierre Salinger, Public Servant

"There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war"

Ernest Bevin, Public Servant

"He who walks in the middle of the roads gets hit from both sides"

George Schultz, Public Servant

"The 19 hijackers that came over here to commit the attack on Sept. 11, there were those that were at the bottom of the line. There were those who were the principal conspirators. There were those who were the pilot. Everybody has a role"

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"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, Public Servant

"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, Public Servant

"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, Public Servant

"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, Public Servant

"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, Public Servant

"In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community"

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers"

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there"

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"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, Public Servant

"In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work"

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"In planning an attack, persons have various roles"

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness"

Pierre Salinger, Public Servant

"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, Public Servant

"Secondly, not only have we put additional agents on counterterrorism, but we've also built up our analytical structure so that we're better positioned to analyze the information we have"

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"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, Public Servant

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

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

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

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"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, Public Servant

"There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era"

Pierre Salinger, Public Servant

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