Patrick Leahy actually said...

"If we lose these bats, it is going to cost our farmers in a whole lot of States, 25 States, billions of dollars in pesticides and everything else, as well as ecological problems."

"I am concerned about maintaining economic incentives for private landowners to own and maintain forest habitat."

"The reason I ask that, I look at what happened 9/11 and hindsight is always 20/20, but you look at the mistakes made where people were not listened to, where dots were not connected."

"Lake Champlain means a lot to us. This has been a non-partisan issue in Vermont."