Patrick Leahy actually said...

"the transparency that we are supposed to have in FOIA is a promise to everybody in this country because it impacts the lives of Americans all across the Nation."

"[a] popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."

"Of course, in the National Defense Act, we tried to put in a very, very narrow exemption."

"Sunshine Week is a timely reminder that as the Congress considers how best to safeguard critical infrastructure information in cyberspace, we have to safeguard the American public's right to know abou..."