Robert Mueller Quotes

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

Law, United, Happening

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.
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Opinion, Analysis

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

It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts.
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Country, Acts, Terrorist

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.
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Mean, Trying, Others

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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Down, Point, Next

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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Justice, Person, Moment

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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Care, Another, Public

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.
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Mean, Before, Said

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

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.
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Women, Men, War

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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Together, Working, Here

I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find.
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Best, Find, Around

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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Said, Getting, Somebody

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.
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Mean, Opinion, Facts

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.
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Before, Same, United

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.
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Work, Successful, Law

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.
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Planning, Attack, Persons

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.
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Single, Person, Lost

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.
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Together, Law, Last

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.
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Work, United, Terrorism

Leaking of classified material is a concern.
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Material, Concern, Classified

People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.
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Down, Talk, Between

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.
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Impossible, Difficult, Often

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

Put, Structure, Analytical

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Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: August 7, 1944

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