Patrick Leahy actually said...

"I think that those on the Court who opened the floodgates to unlimited and unaccountable corporate spending on federal political campaigns have now taken another step to break down public safeguards a..."

"Nothing is so politically effective as the ability to charge that one's opponent and his associates are in all probability crooks."

"I am the son of a printer from Vermont, and I remember my parents one time as a child telling me to protect and revere the First Amendment, the right of free speech, the right to practice any religion..."

"this, in fact, is an attempt to undermine a very core value that we have in the democratic process, which is the right to vote"