Patrick Leahy actually said...

"It was Attorney General Holder who decided, based upon his own review of the matter, to seek to dismiss the indictment."

"I never knew him to break his word. I never knew him to tell me something that was not accurate and true."

"I have said many times and in a lot of different contexts that our criminal justice system is the envy of the world."

"It is a constitutional duty. It is also common sense."