[from his testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, on meetings he had with President Donald Trump]I knew there might come a day when I might need a record of what happened, not only to defend myself but to protect the FBI

[from his testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, on President Donald Trump's tweet about the possibility that his conversations with him were recorded]Lordy, I hope there are tapes

[on WikiLeaks] To my mind, it crosses a line when it moves from being about trying to educate a public and instead just becomes about intelligence porn, frankly just pushing out information about sources and methods without regard to interest, without regard to the First Amendment values that normally underlie press reporting and simply becomes a conduit for the Russian intelligence services or some other adversary of the United States just to push out information to damage the United States.

[on why he doesn't consider WikiLeaks to be a legitimate journalistic organization]It's an important question, because all of us care deeply about the First Amendment and the ability of a free press to get information about our work and publish it

[letter to FBI employees] We don't ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel an obligation to do, so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed. At the same time however given we don't know the significance of this newly discovered collection of emails, I don't want to create a misleading impression.

[observation, 2016] I was raised by great parents who taught me you don't care what other people think about you. In my business [as FBI Director] I have to and deeply do - that people have confidence that the system's not fixed, against black people, for rich people, for powerful people.