Political Quotes

“Pretty much the entirety of the debate that has been done here has been focused on the warrant requirement, right. The reason that we have this particular amendment before us right now is simply to just be able have more reporting and more understanding of what is happening in the FISC. But there is always constant resistance by the intelligence community to looking under the hood. Because it is always the case that they want to use the fear. ``Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged against danger real or pretended from abroad.'' James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, May 13, 1798. The fact is, the Founders knew precisely what would occur, that the government, in the quest to have power in the name of stopping foreign adversaries and in the name of fear, would use that power against our own citizens. That is what is occurring. That is what is happening. We have before us real and obvious abuses--278,000 of those abuses, going after the American people. And our response is a bunch of technical stuff that chases the actual core problem. Our friends don't want to get into peeling back the hood of what is happening in the intel community because our friends are the intel community. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.”