Patrick Leahy

Senator Stevens was not only a very, very close friend; he was one who followed the old school. He always kept his word.

The Supreme Court appears to have undermined Congressional efforts to protect hardworking Americans from powerful interests.

The Court sided with an Enron executive who had been convicted of fraud and gutted a statute vital to combating public corruption.

Senator Sessions mentioned the importance of clarity.

I understand there is going to be a very large number of Senators from both parties who will be at the burial.

I appreciate very much and agree I think with about 90 percent with what we heard from Assistant Attorney General Breuer.

We are going to try again this week to take action to help stem the tide of corporate influence that was unleashed when, earlier this year, five unelected Supreme Court Justices overturned 100 years of precedent in the Citizens United…

We still pass bipartisan legislation. John Cornyn and I passed an update on FOIA in the Senate last night unanimously.

I could not agree more. It is easy to say we are all against terrorists.

Well, thank you, and thank you for telling me what we in Congress intended to do when we wrote the legislation.

It is a growing and will continue to be a growing concern. It is no longer an idea of fiction.

What we have to do is make sure we stop that.

We need to make sure that whatever we do addresses our cybersecurity needs of today.

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act, or ECPA, is one of the Nation's premier digital privacy laws.

This has been the most dysfunctional session of Congress I can remember.

ECPA has provided vital tools to law enforcement to investigate crime and to keep us safe.

I think we know we need that. We just do not want to throw the good out with the bad as we do it.

I am very much worried about a bank robber who sits offshore and steals several hundred million dollars.

I do agree with you that we have got to have a balance that allows us to protect law enforcement and allows us to protect individual liberties.

But also the threats are a lot greater today, too. So we will work together on that.

Determining how best to bring this privacy law into the Digital Age is going to be one of our biggest challenges.

I guess you have a quota, a certain number of Northerners allowed in there periodically.

What do you say for young people? I mean, in some ways you have a unique situation in your family and expanding and changing with the times, the things you are doing environmentally and the self-contained, which is a model. But do you…

Organic farmers are happy for strict regulation that reassures the consumer that food they are purchasing is produced in the way they expect.

Yes, well, let us work with you to get that word out because I have seen the success of the program, and it is important.