"I don't know how we gain anything by handing someone over to a committee to be determined whether they're going to go to the United States where they can be released into the streets of the United States."
"I simply want to illuminate the other side of the argument."
"this Congress has gone through, jumped through a lot of hoops to try to accommodate some judgments of the Supreme Court."
"I think that this Congress has got to jealousy protect its constitutional power, or we end up with these kind of analyses that cause us to jump through these hoops."
"The nine Supreme Court Justices are the last nine people on the planet that should be amending our Constitution."
"I suggest that we proceed under the laws that we had passed that were legitimate, because national security is more important."
"I think the Supreme Court has outstepped its bounds more than once with regard to these issues that have to do with the detainees."
"This is a political decision, not a prudent one, and there will be more that will, and among them----"
"I would tell them that we have given them direction that's consistent with the Constitution, and we have national security at stake."
"I think the majority of the D.C. Circuit would agree with me."
"We have those circumstances that arise, yes."