The attorney general called and asked me if I was willing to be interviewed for FBI director. And the truth is I told him I didn't think so, that I thought it was too much for my family. But that I would sleep on it and call him back in the morning. And so I went to bed that night convinced I was going to call him back and say no.

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James Comey was a contemporary American lawyer. James Brien Comey Jr. is an American lawyer who was the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2013 until his termination in May 2017. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Family — The ties of kinship, parenting, and unconditional love
  • Truth — Meditations on honesty, authenticity, and the search for truth

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