Patrick Leahy actually said...

"we have got to protect ourselves, but we have got to balance it with what makes us great as a Nation, our privacy and our civil liberties."

"I want our country to be protected, but I want our privacy to be protected, and I do not think those two concepts are contradictory."

"Government works only if you trust it, and if people feel they cannot be trusted with information, then we do have problems."

"But we also have to have meaningful checks and balances. We are going to safeguard our fundamental values as we try to secure the Nation."