Patrick Leahy actually said...

"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..."

"On June 24, 2009, Senator Leahy introduced the Crime Victims Fund Preservation Act of 2009, of which I am a cosponsor."

"the political manipulation that had occurred previously with the Department of Justice, particularly its law enforcement and civil rights functions."

"I do not want what appears to many people to be one rule for white America and a different rule for black America."