"I have several questions I'd like you to answer:"
"Free speech is not always free. It gets downright cumbersome when Senators have you on their enemies lists."
"There are a lot of politicians in Washington who love empty symbolic votes. The House has voted what, 39, 40, 41 times--I cannot keep track--to repeal Obamacare? Those votes were by and large empty, s..."
"I think that I do not want the public to take our word for it always, and I think there is a balance here, and transparency is part of that balance."
"I am proud to say that I am introducing my bill with the support of Chairman Leahy, Senator Blumenthal, and a number of other Senators."
"About 500 prisoners, including senior members of Al-Qaeda, escaped from the Abu Ghraib prison."
"It is easy to say close Guantanamo and get an applause from various audiences. The harder question then is what do you do with these terrorists."
"Foreclosing the option to detain and interrogate people is, I would suggest, as I am sure Senator Feinstein knows, a real impediment to our ability to prosecute a war like the one that has been thrust..."
"Well, with respect, General, it will go to zero with respect to those detainees if they remain detained."
"I think it is a dereliction of duty on the part of the Commander-in-Chief."
"Our national security policy should not be derived simply from bumper-sticker ideology but, rather, from careful, hard decisions."