Patrick Leahy actually said...

"A threshold question lawmakers should ask is whether reporters will obey the law if it is enacted."

"I think all of us, Republicans and Democrats, wish we were inheriting the economic situation that President Clinton left to his successor rather than the one that is being left to President Obama."

"I urge the Senate to confirm Eric Holder as the next Attorney General of the United States. He will make us all proud."

"The budget priorities of the Bush administration have weakened some of our most important federal anti-crime programs."