Certain Quote by Alberto Gonzales

While the FBI carries out investigative work, the responsibility for supervising, directing and ultimately determining the resolution of investigations is solely the province of…

— William Barr

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make…

— John Ashcroft

The FBI's mission is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution. To carry out that mission, we're entrusted with a lot of…

— Christopher A. Wray

The FBI is a field-based law enforcement organization, and the vast majority of our investigations should continue to be worked by our field offices.

— Christopher A. Wray

We haven't seen a situation where you have the FBI director talk about an investigation side by side with the attorney general who confirms,…

— Alberto Gonzales

In the Justice Department, responsibility for overseeing and directing investigations is lodged in the department's prosecutors.

— William Barr

The president can take steps to make sure the American public knows what its Justice Department and FBI have been up to.

— Tom Fitton

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…

— Robert Mueller

We really haven't seen much of the attorney general or people from the Department of Justice. So it's very consistent with the way this…

— Alberto Gonzales

Rather than trying to find evidence of a crime, the FBI's counterintelligence goal is to identify, monitor and neutralize foreign intelligence activity in the…

— Asha Rangappa

I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI, not just in this case,…

— Barack Obama

I think my best advice would be to separate Donald Trump, the president of the United States from whatever investigation is being conducted by…

— Leon Panetta