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 More Quotes by James Comey More Quotes From James Comey It's all about ` How do you serve the boss ? What's in the boss's interests, it's the family, the family, the family, the family... and not,' So what's the right thing for the country and what are the values of the institutions that we're dealing with ?'. James Comey top-news I think he felt a pressure in the political environment because he wanted Hillary Clinton to be elected, to give her a shot in the arm, and so he spoke about an investigation. And he shouldn’t have done that, but as you can imagine, creating this drumbeat that the Obama Justice Department, the fix is in because the president has told them what result they should reach. James Comey politics [Obama] said he didn’t want to talk to me about any particular case, ‘cause he was very scrupulous about that. And he said, ‘but I want to just tell you something generally. I appointed you to be FBI director because of yoru integrity and your ability,’ and then he looked me in the eye and said, ‘nothing has happened, nothing, in the last year that has changed my view of that.’ And look, he wasn’t telling me, ‘I agree with what you did,’ he wasn’t telling me ‘you made the right decision.’ He was telling me, ‘I know where it came from, I know you’re not a partisan hack. I know you’re trying to do the right thing.’. James Comey politics We had the problem that President Obama had twice publicly basically said, 'There’s no there, there.' In an interview with—on Fox, an interview on '60 Minutes,' I think. Both times he said that. So that’s his Justice Department. James Comey politics It gave me an uncomfortable feeling because the Clinton campaign, since the matter had come in, the investigation had started in July, had been trying to come up with other words to describe it. James Comey politics A person who sees moral equivalence in Charlottesville, who talks about and treats women like they're pieces of meat, who lies constantly about matters big and small and insists the American people believe it, that person's not fit to be president of the United States on moral grounds. James Comey politics People in this country need to stand up and go to the voting booth and vote their values, and so impeachment, in a way, would short circuit that. James Comey politics I don't think Donald Trump's medically unfit to be president. I think Donald Trump's morally unfit to be president, a person who sees moral equivalence in Charlottesville, who talks about and treats women like they're pieces of meat, who lies constantly about matters big and small and insists the American people believe it, that person's not fit to be president of the United States on moral grounds. James Comey politics I think, given his experience with me, that he has an opportunity in overseeing Bob Mueller to restore some of Bob Mueller professional reputation, and I'm highly confident that Former FBI Director James Comey would refuse to abide that order. James Comey top-news And it would be something that our entire country -- again, Democrats and Republican -- that is higher than all the normal fights about policy. James Comey top-news Donald Trump strikes me as a person of above average intelligence who's tracking conversations and knows what's going on. I don't think Donald Trump's medically unfit to be president. I think Donald Trump's morally unfit to be president, a person who sees moral equivalence in Charlottesville, who talks about and treats women like they're pieces of meat, who lies constantly about matters big and small and insists the American people believe it, that person's not fit to be president of the United States, on moral grounds. James Comey top-news I think impeaching and removing Donald Trump from office would let the American people off the hook and have something happen indirectly that I believe they're duty bound to do directly, people in this country need to stand up and go to the voting booth and vote their values. James Comey top-news It is stunning and I wish I wasn't saying it, but it's just -- it's the truth. I can not say that. It always struck me and still strikes me as unlikely, and I would have been able to say with high confidence about any other President I dealt with, but I can't, it's possible. James Comey top-news The foundation of this country is in jeopardy when we stop measuring our leaders against that central value of the truth. James Comey top-news I think it's possible. I don't know. These are more words I never thought I'd utter about a President of the United States, but United States's possible. James Comey top-news I( would have) been able to say with high confidence about any other President I dealt with, but I can't. United States's possible. James Comey top-news I need loyalty. I expect loyalty. James Comey latest-headlines I started to tell him about the allegation was that he had been involved with prostitutes in a hotel in Moscow in 2013. 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, it's possible, but I don't know. James Comey top-news This president is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values. James Comey top-news
