Louis Freeh Quotes

The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.

The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th.

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

I was concerned about who he would put in there as FBI director because he had expressed antipathy for the FBI, for the director. I was going to stay there and make sure that he couldn’t replace me.

I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.