Political Quotes

“Mr. President, let me add at this time that the vice chairman and I have worked aggressively, as have our staffs, to incorporate the suggestions and the concerns Members and companies have raised with us. If we believed they made the legislation stronger-- stronger from the standpoint of minimizing data loss and stronger from the standpoint of the privacy concerns--let me assure my colleagues we have accepted those and we have incorporated them in the managers' amendment. If, in fact, we couldn't agree or felt that it in any way was detrimental to the legislation, the vice chair and I have agreed to oppose those amendments. I think it is important that this bill represent exactly what we have sold: an information sharing bill, a bill that is voluntary. So I would suggest to those who hear this debate and say ``I don't really understand all this cyber stuff. I hear about it and don't really understand it,'' let me put it in these terms. What this legislation does is it creates a community watch program, and like any neighborhood watch program, the spirit of what we are trying to do is to protect the neighborhood. It doesn't mean that every resident on every street in that community in that neighborhood is going to be a participant, but it means that neighborhood is committed to making sure that if crimes are happening, they are out there to stop them, to report them, and maybe through reporting them, the number of crimes over time will continue to decrease.…”