Robert Mueller

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.

If I have the honor of being confirmed by the Senate, I will make it my highest priority to restore the public's confidence in the FBI and to re-earn the faith and trust of the American people.

We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.

We cannot turn back the clock. We cannot undo the impact of technology. Nor would we want to.

I do believe when there are advances in technology that it is important to balance the privacy interests affected with the investigative take that you might get from that technology.

I still have to work on patience.

But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.

In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.

They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them.