Patrick Leahy actually said...

"I'm proud to be a co-sponsor of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009."

"If the States had the capacity to deal with this issue, that's the preferred route."

"We did pass the Federal hate crime legislation in 1968 in the wake of the assassination of civil rights icon Martin Luther King."

"I would just say, therefore, that when we now carve out a different class of people that may also deserve that kind of protection, we need, and owe it to the American people and to our legal system, t..."