Patrick Leahy actually said...

"Can you imagine how we would react if we heard the head of another country's government make such an order? There would be total outrage expressed by people from the right to the left in this country."

"Mr. Comey also said that the Attorney General, who is now Alberto Gonzales, was under great pressure from the Vice President to issue these memos."

"The fundamental question here is not whether these were shoddy legal memos. They were shoddy legal memos. Everybody knows that.... It failed to cite significant case law; it twisted the plain meaning ..."

"If anybody wants to see whether bipartisanship still exists in Congress, they do not have to look any further than this subcommittee."