James Comey Quotes

I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That's got to be the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I don't know if that's saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed.

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down.

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.

Dad never demonstrated any fear, although my sisters and I lived in terror he’d be killed by an assassin.

Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It's not funny. It's not for the movies.

I'd rather not have to come face to face with predators. I'd rather not be harassed. But no. Those weren't my choices to make, were they?

One of my biggest fears is thinking that there are people in my house when I'm home alone.

There are many people who live with terrorism every day.

My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety.

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

I remember the moment in which we were taken hostage in Libya, and we were asked to lie face down on the ground, and they started putting our arms behind our backs and started tying us up. And we were each begging for our lives because they were deciding whether to execute us, and they had guns to our heads.

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

I've been stalked.

When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.

When somebody comes to your front door, and they're screaming obscenities at you and telling you to come outside, and you've had your life threatened several times, you take it pretty seriously. It's the reason I have a Rottweiler.

Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.'

In the age of terror, there is less room for error.

There is nothing in our experience that can capture the fear that Israelis now live with every hour of every day, where allowing your children to go to a pizza parlor or a disco or just to play in the park can be a choice between life and death.

It was traumatic for my children to see the British army en masse coming into our home and searching the house. I recall on one occasion, when our home was raided, my youngest son was standing at the top of the stairs - he would probably have been only three years of age - in his pyjamas. The soldiers came up the stairs, and he peed himself.