Political Quotes

“let me say at the outset what an extraordinary job my colleague from California has done. There was a time in American history, before law schools, when people read the law and practiced the law. The Senator from California has not only read the law, she has written many laws, and her competence in advocating this important constitutional question has been proven over and over. So I thank her for having the determination and courage to stand up for her convictions against some who would be critical of anyone who broaches the subject. This is a controversial subject. We are talking about the security of Americans. We are talking about terrorism. We all remember a few years ago when our lives were interrupted--a time we will never forget--when terrorists attacked the United States and killed 3,000 innocent American people on 9/11. We came together in this Congress, Democrats and Republicans, and said we need to keep this country safe; that we never want that to happen again. So we passed new laws, suggested by President George W. Bush, and enacted by Democrats and Republicans in Congress. We created new agencies, such as the TSA security agency at airports and we empowered our intelligence branches--which Senator Feinstein has a particular responsibility for as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee--by giving them more people, more technology, and more authority, and we said to them, keep us safe.…”