Patrick Leahy actually said...

"They assured Senators that as lawyers for a Presidential administration they were representing the views of the President."

"I cannot imagine anybody saying we should go back to Plessy v. Ferguson because that was decided first."

"I was really shocked by former Chief Justice Rehnquist's position on the Laird case."

"I can't remember when anybody's been asked such a wide variety of questions or answered them as forthrightly as you have."