Political Quotes

“What this debate is all about, and I know it is very hard to follow the complicated legal language that is associated with this discussion, is the proposition that Americans ought to have the same rights overseas that they have inside the United States. Now, the chairman and the vice chairman have worked with me through the last few weeks to ensure that we can embed this basic proposition in this FISA legislation and do it in a way that is not going to have any unintended consequences or any impact on our national security. I have long felt, literally for decades, that the FISA law has represented the ultimate balance between America's need to fight terrorism ferociously and to protect the constitutional rights of our people, and it is a balance that should not be eliminated because an American leaves U.S. soil. It ought to always mean something to be an American, and that ought to apply even outside the United States.”