"I took the President's actions to mean him saying: I am the executive and the legislative branch of government."
"Well, am I just imagining a happier world that a Supreme Court would have looked at the plain language in the Affordable Care Act and realized it was missing three words-- 'or Federal Government'--and..."
"Because the President takes these actions, it relieves the Congress of actually engaging in this process, and this is actually very deleterious to the rule of law."
"This is much more than a mundane process problem. It is a tragic result for individual rights and liberties."
"It is imperative that Congress reclaim it, not simply for its own sake, but because without it individual rights and liberties cannot flourish as the Founders intended."
"I have laid out a strategy to defeat that ideology. I would take it back to our ability some years past to be able to identify their cell phones..."
"I want to protect the constitutional rights of the American people, and I would like to be able to have this framed in law that reflects our constitutional rights."
"we do not believe that courts should seek to resolve issues of 21st century technology with law that was written in the era of the adding machine."
"we, therefore, agree wholeheartedly with Apple that the right place to bring this discussion is here, to the House of Representatives and the Senate."
"So that would imply that there are many criminals going free because of these delays."
"It is not up to an executive agency to determine law or intent. It is up to this Congress to do so."