Patrick Leahy actually said...

"I have always thought the irony is if we have a victim of a serious crime and we catch the person, we can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars--sometimes it is very necessary--to prosecute the perso..."

"It is this sort of gamesmanship with the VOCA funds that has let crime victims down."

"this is not a partisan issue."

"Crime victims deserve better than they have been getting."