we have got to protect ourselves, but we have got to balance it with what makes us great as a Nation, our privacy and our civil liberties.
I applaud the people in our country who do try to keep us safe, and we know that we will continue to have new procedures.
We consider privacy to be one of the most important values we have.
Safeguarding our liberties is not a Democratic or a Republican idea. It is an American idea.
I think it is important that we have a fully functioning board, and I welcome the President's nominees to this critical board.
Well, you know, we talk about WikiLeaks. There is a case where we had some real--the leaking of parts of it was just embarrassing, but other...
I would like to see some public exposure of whoever the num-nums were--that is a professional Vermont term--who allowed all that stuff to be...
We all want the same thing, to protect our privacy.
I hope we can move quickly.
Government works only if you trust it, and if people feel they cannot be trusted with information, then we do have problems.
I want our country to be protected, but I want our privacy to be protected, and I do not think those two concepts are contradictory.
I worry because sometimes with good intentions you have people who do not seem to use much sense.
It is hard to understand why it took the President nearly three and a half years of a four-year term to send up the nominees.
But we also have to have meaningful checks and balances. We are going to safeguard our fundamental values as we try to secure the Nation.
This is a project that I have supported for 10 years and am eager to see it built in the near future.
I have made GMNF land acquisition a priority during my entire time in the U.S. Senate
I have 50 employees in my office; I have 350.
Well, thank goodness, because all of that effort you put in did not go to taking care of childhood cancers and research and the people down ...
