Political Quotes

“I think we all know the context of the world that we live in today. America is under heightened threat. We also know that, if we go back to May 21, the Director of National Intelligence has said our intelligence agencies must obtain a court order to monitor the communications of foreigners suspected of terrorist activity who are physically located in foreign countries. Foreign intelligence, foreign terrorists in foreign countries, and we need to get a court order. The end result is we have significant gaps in gathering the information that we need to keep America safe. That is why we need to vote against this previous question, and why we need to do an update of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act today. But in light of these threats and this context, what has been the response? What's been the response of this Congress and the other side? Only a couple of weeks ago, we decided that we would give al Qaeda more information about our Intelligence Community.”