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Quotes About FBI

A half-dozen or so FBI techies and LAPD homicide detectives were still on the scene. The latest Pearl Jam played from somebody's radio. The lead singer seemed to be in terrible pain.
~ James Patterson
NEW-AGENT TRAINING at the FBI Academy in Quantico, sometimes called "Club Fed," was turning out to be a challenging, arduous, and tense program. For the most part, I liked it, and I was making an effort to keep any skepticism down. But I had entered the Bureau with a reputation for catching pattern killers, and I
~ James Patterson
If you're in real trouble in a big city, you're better off with a city detective than the FBI.
~ James Patterson
I booted up my laptop and went into the FBI's VICAP database. The Violent Criminal Apprehension Program was a national Web site with one purpose: to help law enforcement agents link up scattered bits of intel related to serial homicides. The site had a kick-ass search engine, and new information was always being plugged in by cops around the country
~ James Patterson
Detective Lincoln knocked, said, "McGrath had serious encryption on his computer. We're going to have to send it out." "Send it to Quantico," I said. "I'll try to get it moved to the front of the line." "Right away," Lincoln said, and he left.
~ James Patterson
It was called Operation Coitus Interruptus, which only goes to prove that there are some people in the FBI with a sense of humor.
~ James Patterson
'Criminal Minds' consists of stories told within the framework of the FBI behavioral science unit. It's about serial profiling.
~ Nina Tassler
The FBI relies on FISA every day in national security investigations to prevent terrorists and foreign intelligence services from harming the United States.
~ Christopher A. Wray
For the FBI and for the United States, the war on terrorism is a complex and perplexing issue. It is as complex and perplexing as any issue we have ever faced.
~ Robert Mueller
Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These homecomings typically involved prearranged surrenders to the FBI, in the hopes of earning lenient sentences.
~ Brendan I. Koerner
The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.
~ Bobby Seale
Our folks at the FBI and at DOJ are working their tails off every day to protect our nation's companies, our universities, our computer networks, and our ideas and innovation.
~ Christopher A. Wray
I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
~ J. Edgar Hoover
We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.
~ Jane Harman
Neither Mueller, the Obama FBI, DOJ, CIA, State Department, nor the Deep State ever had a good-faith basis to pursue President Trump on Russia collusion.
~ Tom Fitton
One of my books, called 'Moscow Station,' revealed that a KGB archivist had defected from Russia to the FBI. And I knew that he was safe, and revealing this would not jeopardize him. But nevertheless, the FBI started a leak investigation.
~ Ronald Kessler
A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.
~ Bob Graham
I think the government, if you measure it in terms of the dollars out the door, about 83 percent of the government stays open in a government shutdown. Social Security checks go out; military still exists. The FBI still chases bad guys. I think the consequences have been blown out of proportion.
~ Mick Mulvaney
The FBI frequently arrests Chinese nationals for stealing research-and-development secrets.
~ John Ratcliffe
I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.
~ John Sherman Cooper
The notion of law enforcement as professional, not political, began developing as an aspiration and an ethos even while, in practice, the FBI was the personal fiefdom of J. Edgar Hoover.
~ Benjamin Wittes
In the case of someone sharing classified information with foreign intelligence, for example, the FBI could surreptitiously ensure that they are no longer able to obtain sensitive information.
~ Asha Rangappa
The mustached Polish guy turned out to be a mustached FBI guy.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
It was the biggest investigation ever conducted, for a single crime, in U.S. history." Several
~ Hampton Sides