Political Quotes

“I also wish to pick up on what our Republican leader has just been talking about: that we can, with bipartisanship, accomplish a great deal in this Senate and that there is no better place to start than on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. In the Senate, we refer to that by its acronym, FISA, but it needs to be our first important piece of business. Certainly, our intelligence community, to whom we have given a very big responsibility, needs certainty with respect to its responsibilities and its rights. It needs permanency, not just 1-month extensions. This intelligence community must know the rules of the road. That is why it is so important for us to, within the next week or so, reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act with a few additional changes to ensure that we can, in fact, collect this intelligence on our enemies. Theodore Roosevelt once referred to his opportunities in life and said the greatest opportunity was work worth doing. And there is no more work worth doing than ensuring that we can gain the intelligence on the enemy that attacked us in this war. We are at war, both at home and abroad. These radical militant Islamists have attacked us, and they continue to threaten us.”