"I very much share your view."
"Bringing both sides together to craft this bill means that it can bring success and in my view, help end the timber wars that have been so hard on my home state."
"Thank you for the opportunity to testify. We look forward to working with Senator Wyden and the Committee to address the needs of La Pine, Oregon."
"I don't think our government ought to be able to write secret law."
"I think it is absolutely essential to protect the operations and methods that are employed day in, day out by the courageous people who serve us in the intelligence community."
"if the public thinks that the law is this, and the law ends up actually being that, that's a prescription for trouble."
"the government's official interpretation of the law should be public."
"The American people are being kept in the dark about their government's interpretation of a major surveillance law."
"When members of the public find out how their government is secretly interpreting the PATRIOT Act, they're going to insist on significant reforms."
"Isn't acceptable to me."
"I think business as usual is unacceptable."