Louis Freeh Quotes

The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.

Terrorists and criminals are increasingly adept at exploiting cutting-edge technologies to carry out or to mask their crimes. To counter current and emerging threats, the FBI actively deploys a wide range of technology-based tools, capabilities, and training that enable and enhance intelligence, national security, and law enforcement operations.

Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.

After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.

In circumstances involving dramatic technological change, the best solution to privacy concerns may be legislative. A legislative body is well situated to gauge changing public attitudes, to draw detailed lines, and to balance privacy and public safety in a comprehensive way.

Our folks at the FBI are working their tails off every day to stop and find criminals, terrorists, and nation-state adversaries.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has long been regarded as our nation's premier federal investigative agency.

The men and women of the FBI are deployed around the clock, all over our country and around the world, identifying and disrupting threats, and pursuing those who would do us harm.

Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires - a wiretap requires a court order. [...] Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. [...]

I don't want to weaken the Patriot Act. I want to repeal it.

The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.

Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have known better.

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

Donald Trump and I are going to make sure that law enforcement have the resources and the tools to be able to really restore law and order to the cities and communities in America.

Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.

The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud.

So, I got into the law enforcement game. I worked for an outfit called Newton Detective Agency for a while. I worked eight hours on the waterfront making sure the longshoremen didn't take too many things.

I will work with local police and appoint the best prosecutors and federal investigators, whose mission will be to ensure every American is safe.

It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground, send them all to their maker and he'll settle them down.

[FBI] philosophy is "Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it." So that's that.

Secretary Clinton doesn't want to use a couple of words, and that's law and order. And we need law and order. If we don't have it, we're not going to have a country.

The quest for homeland security is heading ... toward the quasi-militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere, maybe everything must be protected and policed.

I will not let the patriot act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged.

When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses.