Good people lie. I think I’m a good person, where I have lied, i still believe Andrew McCabe is a good person but the inspector general found he lied. James Comey More Quotes by James Comey More Quotes From James Comey There was a boy that the group found irritating, and I participated in picking on him, some things I did. Some things I watched. Some things I just laughed at. And I'm, 40 years later, ashamed of James Comey, and it taught me a lot about James Comey and about people in groups. James Comey top-news His only reference point is internal --' what will bring me what I need, what will fill this hole in me -- get me the affirmation I crave' -- that is deeply concerning. James Comey top-news But that is the style, it's' I'm great, I'm great, I'm great,'. James Comey top-news Honestly, I call him the President of the United States, because I respect the office. James Comey top-news I don't have a nickname for him, honestly, I call him the President of the United States because I respect the office. James Comey top-news After I was fired, I put together a legal team of three people, one of whom was professor Dan Richman at Columbia University. After I had asked him to give this information to the media, I separately gave my legal team four memos, which were unclassified. James Comey top-news It's a hard thing to say, but I think Robert Mueller has an emptiness inside of Robert Mueller and a hunger for affirmation that I have never seen in an adult, i think that Robert Mueller lacks external reference points, instead of making hard decisions by calling upon a religious tradition or logic or tradition or history it is all what will fill this hole, what will get me the affirmation that I need ? James Comey top-news It doesn't mean that I'm right, that everybody hates me, I could still be wrong. James Comey top-news I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I don't know whether the current President of the United States was with prostitutes peeing on each other in Moscow in 2013. James Comey top-news Given that the IG's report reflects interactions that Andy McCabe had with me and other senior executives, I could well be a witness. James Comey top-news I thought that the department as currently supervised would not be aggressive enough to go... get the tapes. James Comey politics It’s not okay. The McCabe case illustrates what an organization committed to the truth looks like, i ordered that investigation. James Comey politics I pray no FBI director ever has to deal with this again, because it was just a series of no-win decisions, … And my hope is, I even hope Hillary Clinton at least reads those parts of the book, because I think she will walk away saying, ‘you know what, I still think that guy’s an idiot, but…he’s kind of an honest idiot, and he’s trying to do the right thing here. James Comey politics He’s a very smart man and a lawyer. And so it surprised me. He shouldn’t have done it. It was inappropriate. James Comey politics So at that point, what do you do? Take no action if you can avoid it, and I kept looking for a door that said, ‘No action here,’ and I can’t find it. I could only see two doors and they were both action. One said ‘speak’ and the other said ‘conceal.'. James Comey latest-headlines He’s tweeted at me probably 50 times. I’ve been gone for a year. I’m like a breakup he can’t get over, i’m out there living my best life. He wakes up in the morning and tweets at me. James Comey latest-headlines Does that mean we’ve become numb to this? It’s not OK for the president of the United States to say a private citizen should be in jail, it’s not normal. It’s not acceptable. It’s not OK. James Comey latest-headlines I actually was quite surprised because I thought, I’m leading the Russia investigation, even though our relationship is becoming strained, there’s no way I’d be fired. That would be a crazy thing to do. James Comey latest-headlines I think most likely it goes on. I think you would need to fire everyone in the Justice Department and the FBI to stop that investigation, i think it would be very hard to shut that down by firing him. James Comey latest-headlines Here’s my reaction. And the reason I smile a little bit is anybody who’s actually done investigations knows that if you’ve been investigating something for almost a year and you don’t have a general sense of where it’s likely to end up, you should be fired because you’re incompetent, but after nine or ten months of investigating, it looked like on the current course and speed, this is going to end without charges. And so what will we do? Smart people, competent people plan ahead. If you’re going to charge you, you plan ahead. If you’re not going to charge, you plan ahead. James Comey politics
