Political Quotes

“I want to like it because it ends bulk collection, and I am all for ending bulk collection. So we all agree--the people for it agree with the problem; it is a question of the solution. It says there have to be specific selector terms on U.S. persons. Part of my problem is that ``persons'' is still defined as corporations. My concern is that you could put the word ``Verizon'' in there, and the government wouldn't be collecting the records, but you still could get all records from Verizon. Does the Senator see what I mean? That is one of my concerns with the way it has been written. My other general concern is that we would still be having bulk collection. It wouldn't be bulk collection by the government, but it would still be bulk collection but through the phone companies. I don't like the liability protection because I think it makes it more likely than not that the privacy agreement won't be as respected if they cannot be sued for violating the privacy agreement. Those are a couple of concerns. I don't know if they are insurmountable, but those are a couple of concerns.”