Political Quotes

“I think the American people are with us. I think the American people don't like the idea of bulk collection. I think the American people are horrified. I think it will go down in history as one of the most important questions we have asked in a generation when the Senator from Oregon asked the Director of National Intelligence: Are you gathering in bulk the phone records of Americans? And when he didn't tell the truth and then when the President kept him in office and then how that led to this great debate we are having now--I think the American people are with us. I don't think those inside Washington are listening very well, so I think those inside Washington have not come to the conclusion yet. But I think the Senator from Oregon is right. There may be enough of us now to say: Hey, wait a minute, you are not going to steam roll through once again something that isn't even doing what you said it is going to do. No one said at the time of the PATRIOT Act that it meant we could collect all records of all Americans all the time. In fact, in the House, one of the cosponsors of the bill, James Sensenbrenner, knew all about the PATRIOT Act. He was a proponent of the PATRIOT Act, and he said never in his wildest dreams did he think that what he voted for would say we could gather all the records all the time.…”