Louis Freeh Quotes

The Director of the FBI is paid to take risks where the security of the country is at stake.... What Hoover is doing here is putting himself above the President.

I think that less presidential interference the better.

Although the president has the power to remove an FBI director, the decision should not be taken lightly.

I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.

I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic.

After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.

I decided that I was going to leave State House, and I was going also to step up and step aside so that I give President Peter Mutharika an opportunity to run the country without my interference.

There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's behavior gave FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover absolute job security, as well as the potential power to derail Kennedy's re-election had he survived assassination.

Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.

If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

Politicians always interfere with what other professions are doing

Congressional power has not so much been usurped by the Presidency as given up to the Presidency by Congress.

The more publicized the presidency the less powerful the office.

The firing of FBI Director James Comey was the biggest mistake in modern political history.

I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.

I serve at the discretion of the prime minister.

President Hindenburg had ultimate say over whether the government would survive or not.

That job should not be a political job. We should not be hearing very publicly from the leader of the FBI.

It's a huge deal when you have got people of the Department of Justice and FBI making fundamental misrepresentations to the FISA court.

I have mixed feelings over the dismissal of James Comey as FBI director. We served together at the Department of Justice and I've known him for many years.

It's a big deal when you have got to fire the deputy director of the FBI because he lies four times, twice under oath. It's also a big deal when you have got to reassign people off the Mueller probe, when you have got cash at the Democratic National Committee that is convertible into a warrant to spy on American citizens.

If Hillary Clinton had won the election, which, thank God she didn't, but if she had... she would have fired Comey immediately.

You cannot denude the presidency of the substance and power of its office. It can't be done.