"In my opinion, it is not reasonable, it is not close."
"The spirit tends to be in the eye of the beholder."
"What the Constitution requires is what you are committed to do."
"the release of terrorists is an affront to the rule of law, the victims and their families, and every American who believes that violent acts must be punished to the fullest extent of the law"
"I just feel like that was a very unwise thing, I mean, how that went along."
"Senator Specter felt the pressures, he felt the development of the investigations... and felt that there was political efforts to block that."
"the Senate voted 95-2, Chairman Leahy and all the members of our Committee voted to deplore President Clinton's pardon."
"I think that is a danger and a weakness that could leave us more vulnerable than we need to be in the future."
"The FBI Director, Mr. Freeh, opposed it, and he had labeled FALN one of the three greatest domestic terrorist threats to the United States in 1998."
"It is unthinkable that prisoners of war, particularly those who do not comply with the rules of warfare and violate the Geneva Conventions, would be given the same rights as an American citizen accuse..."
"It strikes me that after all of that flap over the FALN pardon that the Deputy Attorney General... should have been even more resistant to the Marc Rich pardon."