Robert Swan Mueller III Quotes

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

  Robert Swan Mueller III

  Topics in America, Confidence

• And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn’t an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn’t committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.

  Robert Swan Mueller III

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Person, Moment

• And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to go down to our command center and get things going.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Point, Next

• All I’m going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean.

  Robert Swan Mueller III

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mean, Trying

• And so every one of us in the FBI, I don’t care if it’s a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.

  Robert Swan Mueller III

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Care, Public

• As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn’t read into it more than is there.

  Robert Swan Mueller III

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mean, Before

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

  Robert Swan Mueller III

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Law, Try

• But we had – I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.

  Robert Swan Mueller III

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Law, United

• I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Together, Working

• I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Men

• I was in my office when – on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had – or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Getting, Somebody

• I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you’ll find.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, Find

• I didn’t know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it’s tremendously professional.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fbi

• In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

  Robert Swan Mueller III

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attack, Planning, Persons

• 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.

  Robert Swan Mueller III

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in United, Terrorism, Interviews

• If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you’d looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

  Robert Swan Mueller III

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Look, Same

• In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that – how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also.

  Robert Swan Mueller III

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in New, Single

• In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.

  Robert Swan Mueller III

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful, Law

• I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.

  Robert Swan Mueller III

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Opinion, Facts

• In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we’ve worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Together, Law

Robert Swan Mueller III (34)

Birth:	7th August, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Director

About

Mueller was born in 1944 in New York City, the son of Alice C. and Robert Swan Mueller. He grew up outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A 1962 graduate of St. Paul's School, he went on to receive an B.A. from Princeton University in 1966, an M.A. in international relations from New York University in 1967, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1973.

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