James Comey

I always want to respect the institution of Congress, i'd love it if they didn't want me to testify, but if they want me to testify and we can do it in a responsible way, I will abide it.

He’s tweeted at me probably 50 times. I’ve been gone for a year. I’m like a breakup he can’t get over, i’m out there living my best life. He wakes up in the morning and tweets at me.

One of the most bizarre meetings of my life.

There are not many things I would bet my life on. I would bet my life that Bob Mueller will do things the right way, the way we would all want, whether we're Republicans or Democrats, the way Americans should want.

Close your eyes again, change the names. Let me make one up for you, the Iranians, this is totally made up, the Iranians interfere in the election to help elect Barack Obama because they think theyll get a better nuclear deal from him. And during that election, an Obama aide meets with the Iranians and talks about the dirt they have that will help Obama get elected. And the FBI finds out about that. We should not investigate that?

Look, this is terrible. It makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election, but honestly, it wouldn't change the decision.

We have a variety of tools that we as a government use to try and deter behavior on the Internet outside of norms, just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean that your government’s not doing something to try and change behavior.

Although there is evidence of potential violation of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case, prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing the charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent.

It was a hard choice, I still believe in retrospect the right choice, i can't consider for a second whose political fortunes will be affected.

Howard has a longstanding history of being a vibrant academic community and the perfect place to have a rich dialogue on many of the most pressing issues we face today.

I don't know for sure, but I think that was a fairly easy judgment for the community, he Putin hated Secretary Clinton so much that the flip side of that coin was he had a clear preference for the person running against the person he hated so much.

A number of things had gone on which I can't talk about yet, that made me worry that the department leadership could not credibly complete the investigation and decline prosecution without grievous damage to the American people's confidence in the justice system, and then the capper was and I'm not picking on the attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who I like very much but her meeting with President Clinton on that airplane was the capper for me, and I then said, you know what, the department cannot, by itself, credibly end this.

I was struck that Barack Obama is the best listener as a leader I had ever seen and Donald Trump is the worst I've ever seen, barack Obama had the confidence to be quiet and try and get that. Donald Trump is Donald Trump, so I don't see any prospect that Donald Trump would be able to be quiet for long enough to hear the truth.

I( would have) been able to say with high confidence about any other President I dealt with, but I can't. United States's possible.

It is stunning and I wish I wasn't saying it, but it's just it's the truth. I can not say that. It always struck me and still strikes me as unlikely, and I would have been able to say with high confidence about any other President I dealt with, but I can't, it's possible.