Patrick Leahy actually said...

"As long as there are two candidates fighting for the nomination when it's obvious which one is going to win, all that it does is to help the other party's nominee."

"And we are certainly not getting our money's worth there, in fact, just the opposite. And I don't see how we actually end up fighting terrorists, if our money is going simply to prop up somebody who ..."

"I have no objection to presidents appointing close friends, but will he keep the kind of independence that a attorney general has to keep from the president?"

"It's been long enough."