Quotes by:

"You know, I'm not the only person working on this case. Why don't you write about the others. They deserve credit." — Responding to a reporter's inquiry about the Boston mafia probe. (Hartford Courant, January 28, 2001)

"Nobody in this country is above the law, an FBI agent or otherwise, and ultimately the ends do not justify the means." — Unusual public remarks at press conference the day former FBI agent John Connolly was convicted in 2002. (Boston Globe, January 7, 2008)

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"He kind of has blinders on in the sense that he doesn't worry about the politics and all the other stuff that might be swirling around, and I think that's really what makes him so successful." —Warren T. Bamford, special agent in charge of the FBI's Boston office. (Boston Globe, January 7, 2008)

"He's such a decent guy you can't hate him. That can make it hard to get motivated." —Boston lawyer Anthony Cardinale, who has faced Durham in the courtroom. (Hartford Courant, January 28, 2001)

"He's Fitzgerald with a sense of humor." — Hugh Keefe, a Connecticut defense lawyer, comparing Durham to Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who led the investigation into the leaked identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame (Washington Post, January 3, 2008)