Patrick Leahy actually said...

"Sequestration has produced terrible consequences for the average American as well--our infrastructure is failing, investment in job training and employment are down, and education funding lags behind."

"If you guarantee all that, you guarantee diversity. If you guarantee diversity, you guarantee a democracy."

"Well, it was a great expansion of Executive power that many of us questioned."

"Hope springs eternal, but do not hope too much. He might."