Patrick Leahy actually said...

"We can't turn our backs on these kids. We can't hold ourselves up... as some paradigm of human rights protections."

"We are asking those who serve us in government to pause, consider the repercussions and enact legislation that protects the interests of all businesses, great and small."

"We cannot build thousands of new needed businesses, we cannot have top-notch education for our kids, we cannot get America out of the economic rut it is in when the one tool that can help make it all ..."

"The fate of the Internet will be decided in the next few months and what is decided in those few months might be very, very difficult or impossible to undo."