Robert Mueller

Public Servant

1944-08-07

Quotes by Robert Mueller

• Computer hackers do not need to know each other's real names, or even live on the same continent, to steal millions in mere hours.

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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.

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• In the wake of the September 11 attacks, it became clear that the FBI's number one priority must be the prevention of another terrorist attack.

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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.

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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.

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• The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

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• And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to go down to our command center and get things going.

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

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• I am convinced that there are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be. And even they are converging into one category: companies that have been hacked and will be hacked again.

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• We cannot turn back the clock. We cannot undo the impact of technology. Nor would we want to.

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• I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.

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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.

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• 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.

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