Joseph Lieberman actually said...

"An alert citizenry is one of the best defenses against terrorist attacks."

"We are holding this hearing today in the dispatch of our responsibility to inquire as to the impact passage of your legislation could have on our homeland security."

"It just seems to me that knowing that any action here can ultimately be brought to court by a defendant, that you would want to know whether that person has gone in to buy a gun."

"If anybody is on a terrorism watchlist because somebody suspects that they may be a terrorist, it is in the interest of everybody else on that plane and of society to at least stop them and give them ..."