"If you are really for campaign finance reform, maybe we ought to start with not giving out specific items that seem to go to specific corporate entities."
"I think a great place to start cutting spending would be the $600 billion a year we spend on aid to State and local governments."
"We need to boldly proclaim our vision for America. We need to go boldly forth under the banner of liberty that clutches the constitution in one hand and the bill of rights in the other."
"if we are going to complain about encryption or we are going to complain about individuals wanting privacy, we really need to have a thorough discussion and understanding of the Fourth Amendment."
"I would hazard that and I would propose that there is no person named 'Verizon,' so you do not have an individualized warrant under the Fourth Amendment."
"I do not think that is a balanced approach to continue doing what his Privacy Committee specifically said exceeds the bounds where the Constitution intended."
"Do you believe the government has the right to have bulk collection of records from millions of individuals without a warrant?"
"You think it is a balanced approach to collect all of the phone records and store them in Utah without an individualized warrant?"
"The President's own Privacy Committee recommended that we quit collecting these."
"This Committee has an opportunity to end an injustice, an injustice that disproportionately affects minorities and the poor, by reforming our civil asset forfeiture laws."
"This program provides a perverse incentive that encourages government to confiscate property because government officials get to keep up to 80 percent of the proceeds."