A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

by James B. Comey

a leader needs the truth, but an emperor does not consistently hear it from his underlings.

in a healthy organization, doubt is not weakness, it is wisdom, because people are at their most dangerous when they are certain that their cause is just and their facts are right.

The FBI represents the blindfolded Lady Justice and has to do the right thing outside the world of politics.

Martin Luther once said, “You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”