Quotes by Louis Freeh

• I deal in facts.
• We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country.
• The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th.
• 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.
• The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.
• My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.
• 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 was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.
• 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.
• 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.