Patrick Leahy actually said...

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

Safeguarding our liberties is not a Democratic or a Republican idea. It is an American idea.

We all want the same thing, to protect our privacy.

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.