Connie Phillips

“in a country where the far-left and far-right wings usually do all the talking and shouting. Every so often in our history, that giant stirs. Watergate stirred the giant, and a president resigned. A decade before that, the murder of little girls in Sunday school at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963 woke that giant, which gave us the life-changing Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.”
― James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

“I tell them that I hope some of them decide to have been people who used their abilities to help those who needed it—the weak, the struggling, the frightened, the bullied. Standing for something. Making a difference. That is true wealth.”
― James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

“Niebuhr saw the evil in the world, understood that human limitations make it impossible for any of us to really love another as ourselves, but still painted a compelling picture of our obligation to try to seek justice in a flawed world.”
― James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership