Susan Collins actually said...

"I just want to echo your thanks to our witnesses and also to the thousands of Federal employees who work for them."

"We want this information sharing, which is so vital, to be improved, so that the vital information can be linked while protecting, obviously, the privacy and civil liberty rights."

"we have created new security and intelligence systems to detect, deter, and defend against terrorism."

"the fight against Islamist extremism and terrorism sure looks like it is going to go on for a long time to come."