Patrick Leahy actually said...

"But what we are now seeing are real declines in the size of police forces."

"I think that we've done that at great expense to, what I would call, 'hometown security'."

"We have to act quickly and decisively to shore up State and local law enforcement or face reversal of the really great strides we made in the '90s at reducing crime."

"As long as there are two candidates fighting for the nomination when it's obvious which one is going to win, all that it does is to help the other party's nominee."