Jamie Raskin actually said...

"One of our great American aphorisms--I think it's attributed to Ben Franklin--is that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

"What's striking to me, though, is that those people who have gone through it or have had an immediate family member go through it, look at something like a proposed $6 billion cut in NIH medical resea..."

"I doubt many Americans realize that when they go down to the DMV to get their driver's licenses, their photos could be made part of a database that can be searched by the FBI."

"Now, understand, I guess my concern is that if we are going to, again, use tools, it seems to me that we would do everything in our power to make sure that those tools are used in a fair way."