Political Quotes

“according to the Book of Mark, Jesus asked this question: ``For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?'' Mark 8:36. I would ask the President of the United States a similar question-- what good is it to expand the power of the President, if in the process you erode the fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution? Last week, we learnd--from a New York Times report and then from President Bush himself--that since September 11, 2001, the President of the United States has authorized the National Security Agency to conduct electronic surveillance of American citizens on American soil without resort to the procedures of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Today we learn, contrary to assurances by administration officials, that the NSA has also conducted warrantless surveillance of purely domestic phone calls because of the technical difficulties of determining the physical location of a particular telephone. There is still much that we do not know about this secret program and much that we do not know about the purported legal basis for it.…”