Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I too would like to express my appreciation to the chairman, my colleague from Texas, for the time and to the ranking member as well. All of the issues have been laid out as to the three elements. So I just simply want to pose a question to my colleagues: We know that we have a problem with the three remaining intrusive and, I believe, unconstitutional provisions. We know that Ranking Member Conyers has explained that we were not absent; we did not have the lights out under his jurisdiction. We actually pursued this. We couldn't get an agreement. We couldn't move toward the floor. So the question now is, we realize that a roving wiretap is intrusive. We realize that the ``lone wolf'' provides a problem. So the question is, how do we fix it for the American public? How do we ensure the Constitution is intact? Let me be very clear: It is well documented that human intelligence is the best. Why? Because most of us were surprised when I say that in the intelligence community--at least they have not articulated about what is going on in the Mideast, both in Egypt and Yemen and otherwise--we were surprised. Did any of that help us? This is an intrusion on the American public. We are not in any way nonpatriots. We are patriots. We believe in the Founding Fathers. We understand that they came together to give you, Americans, the right to your freedom.…”