In a different way, we are talking about whether in the intelligence selector numbers a person is a corporation and whether can have a single warrant. I think if you want phone records from Verizon, it should say ``Verizon'' and we want…

Mr. President, I thank the Senator from New Mexico for coming down and for being a great supporter of the Fourth Amendment. One of the things I think is interesting is that in our current culture we seem to devalue the Fourth Amendment…

Mr. President, I thank the Senator from New Mexico for that great question. I think there is no way we can square this bulk collection with the Fourth Amendment. I think part of the problem, though, is that we, over a long period of time…

I wish to thank the Senator from Montana for that excellent synopsis of the issues as well as for the great question. I think the reports by the review committee and the privacy committee, both commissioned by the President, both…

I guess the question I have is that we have some of those restrictions now, but they seem to think that those restrictions don't apply--the people interpreting what we have now are interpreting 215 to mean we can collect all of the…

Mr. President, the Senator from Utah makes a very good point and also asks some very good questions. In saying that we tend to work against headlines here, I often say we lurch from deadline to deadline, and the American people wonder what…

Mr. President, I would like to thank the Senator from Oregon, and I would like to point out to the American people, to people who are always crying out and saying ``Why can't you work together? Why can't you work with the other side?''…

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…

I think the vast majority of the intelligence community, as are the vast majority of policemen, good people. They are trying to do what is best for the country. They are patriotic people, and they are really trying to do what is necessary…

This is on op-ed that was written by the Senator from Oregon and appeared in the LA Times in December. The op-ed says that building a backdoor into every cell phone, tablet or laptop means deliberately creating weaknesses that hackers and…

Mr. President, that is a great question, and I also think it is very difficult to prove these things one way or another sometimes. We are at a great disadvantage because a lot of times they hold all of the information. I think it was…

Mr. President, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now. And I will not let the PATRIOT Act--the most unpatriotic of acts--go…