Patrick Leahy actually said...

"Slashing non-defense programs to pay for an increase in defense spending is not a solution and would not make our Nation safer."

"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."