"We don't want to have historians look back and say, 'OK, you won the war on terrorism but you lost

"We don't want to have historians look back and say, 'OK, you won the war on terrorism but you lost your civil liberties.' We have become, since Sept. 11, a member of the intelligence community in ways we were not in the past."
FBI Director Robert Mueller
Testifying before the 9/11 commission
"It makes your heart almost stop, the degree of some of the institutional and systemic problems in the FBI and the CIA. We have to fix them. And we have to do it quicker than five years."
Democrat Timothy Roemer
A former congressman from Indiana and member of the 9/11 commission