Chuck Grassley actually said...

"So while I hear some of my colleagues talk about the independence of the Attorney General, well, it is perhaps some independence, but it really is the independence of one's personal conviction."

"the Congress refused to pass what the President wanted to do."

"I told Senator Leahy, whom I partnered with on a number of Freedom of Information reforms, he and I are the Senate's odd couple when it comes to that."

"When 64,000 pages are supposedly privileged, then I wonder, what does the President know about it if they can be protected that way?"