You look at some of the speeches of Secretary of Defense Gates. He has talked about how civilian casualties have been a ...
To not respond, I think, goes to our conscience and our moral standing in the world.
you, Senator Leahy, have been the champion of for so many years is really critical.
Well, thank you. Because as long as I am here in the Senate, I am not only going to remember that little boy in the fiel...
We talk about where the War Victims Fund has been used, and I think of Vietnam and President George H.W. Bush, the first...
I am proud to have my name on that, but I am more proud about what has been done with it.
Unfortunately, as we have discovered, this is no longer the textbook case that peace treaties are signed, armies march a...
Too many programs, as you know, are written in stone and nothing changes.
This program, also administered by USAID, has helped so many.
Opening Statement of Senator Patrick J. Leahy
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Security is number one. National security is at the top of the security list, and terrorism is at the top there.
I think everybody here wants to work with them, wants to help. How do we do this? I seems like an almost Herculean task.
The rule of law, civil liberties, and civil rights--these are not our burdens. They are what make us better.
I applaud the Director's efforts to recommit the FBI to its best traditions.
The last thing that we need is slow-walking this kind of investigation.
I can assure the Senator we will, because the sunset provisions were put in there basically to force not only the Congre...
There was the prosecution of a Senator, Ted Stevens, which has drawn severe criticism from the presiding Federal judge.
