Louis Freeh Quotations

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

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.

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th.

I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.

It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever.

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

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.

I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.

We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country.

I have always said to myself, 'I never want to say I'm leaving a job because I want to spend more time with my family.' I feel sorry for people when they say that. But my advice to them is that you shouldn't have taken the job in the first place.

The province of Kosovo is now one of the largest crime scenes in history,

We were both very, very struck with the sensitivity and reverence with which the men and women on board that ship are treating those remains,

I would clearly characterize it in that fashion.

I am the leadership, and if I am not doing a good job in that regard, then you ought to get a new FBI director,

Cargo theft is a major crime problem throughout the nation, with some estimates of losses ranging up to $10 billion a year,

I think we have the tools there. I just think we need more resources,

It is a testament to the American judicial system and the American people that 25 years have not been able to erase or soften the facts of the case,

Judge Webster and anyone he selects to assist him will have complete access and whatever resources are necessary to complete the task, ... He will report directly to the attorney general and I, and we will share his report with the National Security Council and the Congress. I intend to act swiftly on any of his recommendations.

That's what I've been preaching to them for the last eight years--that their job at the end of the day is not to gauge whether their actions are going to cause embarrassment or not, whether what we ask them to do is convenient, or consistent with safe decisions and smooth careers,

We are determined to maintain and enforce the highest standards of ethical conduct by FBI employees,

Trade secrets which go directly to the economic security of the United States, which today is tantamount to our national security,

Few loans could have less security than a credit card.

extensive experience in extremely sensitive internal integrity investigations.

We will pursue this matter, ... to whatever end, to whatever consequence, to whatever logical and just conclusion. And you have my promise that I will do whatever I can to see that occurs in the years to come.

We wish you Godspeed. I wish you had not given the make and model and color of your vehicle,

We certainly have put on a full-court press to try to retrieve these weapons, which are very dangerous weapons,

credible evidence that an organized campaign of slander and intimidation may exist.

Dr. Lee was prosecuted because of his actions, not because of his race,

I understand that he was a dedicated and loyal FBI agent who has sacrificed a lot. I also think TWA took its toll on him both emotionally and physically,

The rule of law has continued to prevail over the emotion of the moment, the cornerstone attribute of our criminal justice system.

This is a painful and expensive property crime, ... Every insured driver in the United States ... bears the cost of this crime in insurance premiums.

There were times when the investigators felt that interviews and the focus of interviews should move quicker than the attorneys who were managing the inquiry or the grand jury otherwise decided. And that was the source of some frustration at different points,

There's certainly no greater danger to them in the context of this subject matter than the Internet and the very easy use which pedophiles and criminals can make of that Internet,

There's a number of them that we need to find, and we will find them, ... I am very confident that they will be brought to justice and, hopefully, in the United States, some of them at some point.

It was delivered to the spiritual leader, who went berserk, ... It compromised the Saudis, because it was clear from the letter that the Saudis had told us about the Iranians.

It was a surrender and it was based on some negotiations that we've been conducting over the last few days,

The investigations are progressing well, but we still need more time. We have not made any conclusions regarding the two suspects still being held in police custody,

The FBI secretly met with Mr. Clinton during a White House dinner to draw blood for a DNA test on the semen-stained dress worn by Monica Lewinsky.

The FBI learned of his identity long before the Russians. They are learning about it today,

The FBI entrusted him with some of its most sensitive matters. And the U.S. government relied upon him for his service and his integrity. He, as charged, abused and betrayed that trust. The crimes alleged are an affront not only to his fellow FBI employees, but to the American people,

In the four-and-one-quarter years we have worked together, I have seen her bring nothing but integrity and honesty to the table.

I recommended an appointment of an independent counsel to investigate whether crimes may have been committed, but nothing more should be inferred from that recommendation,

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.

I can't think of a more important assignment for the FBI or the U.S.,

The enactment of the CESA legislative proposal is supported by the law enforcement community...and I strongly encourage its favorable consideration by Congress,

The implications of a White House pass would mean I could go in and out of the building any time I wanted without really being recorded as a visitor.

Agents from these offices are following up literally hundreds of leads.

The framers sitting in Philadelphia looked at the egregious powers the state would have to violate the privacy and looked at also the need to give the police the ability to protect citizens against crimes,