Patrick Leahy actually said...

"President Obama has inaccurately attacked the Supreme Court rulings that protect core political speech."

"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..."

"I do not want to see this country backtrack on hard-won progress."

"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..."