171 Quotes by James Comey

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

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

We can only query against that which we have collected. And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing show up because we have no record of them.

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

I see the government operating the way the founders intended.

Senator Schumer is a partisan.

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

As so often happened during the dot-com bubble days, the revenues that AOL and PurchasePro were counting on did not materialize. And instead of confronting that harsh reality, AOL and PurchasePro cooked up a scheme to inflate PurchasePro's revenues.

AOL had a very strong motive to create the appearance of high revenues for PurchasePro because the value of the warrants AOL had received in the deal depended on PurchasePro's performance.