Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague from Utah, my friend and very distinguished colleague, as well as our friend from the State of Vermont for their leadership this morning and throughout the drafting and formulating of this very well-balanced compromise--a balance between security, which we must be able to preserve and defend, and our privacy and other essential constitutional rights, which we need to protect just as zealously, because the reason for fighting to preserve our security is so we maintain and preserve our great constitutional rights. That balance can be struck. It is feasible, achievable, and this measure of the USA FREEDOM Act is a strong step in the right direction. I wish to talk today about one of its great virtues, which is an American virtue, the virtue of due process having an effective adversarial process, one that is transparent and provides for effective appellate view. The lack of an adversarial process, as well as transparency and effective appellate review, is one of the reasons the USA FREEDOM Act is absolutely necessary. We know bulk collection of megadata is unnecessary. The President's own review group made that fact clear. We also know bulk metadata collection is, essentially, un-American. This country was founded by people who, rightly, abhorred the so-called general warrant that permitted the King's officials to rummage through their homes and documents.…”