Patrick Leahy actually said...

"Would you be horribly upset if we did as we did in the last budget to restore the cuts?"

"I hate to think what happens if these refugees have to go somewhere else."

"Our goal was to enable the United States to remain the global leader that so many Americans and people around the world want us to be."

"The other approach is to be a leader, one that is still the world's only superpower."