our great Nation was founded on the fundamental principle that all persons are created equal. We have long committed, and recommitted, ourselves to ensuring that all persons have the right to prosper through hard work and ingenuity…

I note that my amendment on the Judiciary Committee bill does not preclude a debate on the question of immunity for the telecommunications carriers. It speaks to what the FISA Court can or should do with this new surveillance authority. If…

obviously I disagree with the description of the Senate Judiciary Committee's amendment. I spoke on this yesterday, but I am going to take a few minutes to describe what is in the Judiciary Committee's bill. I support the Judiciary…

I support Senator Feingold's amendment to provide Congress with additional materials from the FISA Court to enable Congress to conduct more effective oversight. This amendment is one of the many improvements to the Senate Intelligence bill…

Senator Kennedy and I have offered an important amendment to ensure that there will be some measure of accountability for the unlawful actions of this administration in the years following 9/11. Regrettably, those opposing this commonsense…

As we start a new year--and the Senate starts a new session--the American people have a new law that honors and protects their right to know. I am pleased that during the waning hours of 2007, the President signed the Leahy-Cornyn Openness…

And we are certainly not getting our money's worth there, in fact, just the opposite. And I don't see how we actually end up fighting terrorists, if our money is going simply to prop up somebody who has become very, very dictatorial and…

I have no objection to presidents appointing close friends, but will he keep the kind of independence that a attorney general has to keep from the president?

It's been long enough.

I don't believe that. You can't erase e-mails. Not today.

Well, we are going to issue subpoenas. We'll probably issue them on Thursday, or at least authorize the issuance of them on Thursday.

President Bush insisted that there's weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, too.

This is something the American people have a stake -- a stake in. Let them hear, and let them hear it in public and in open.

I want them under oath.

Well that's what -- you know, he can say what he wants. All we want is the truth.

Well, we are going to issue subpoenas. We will probably issue them on Thursday, at least authorize the issuing of them on Thursday.

My gut tells me, there's a lot of political pressure in determining who is fired and who is not. And I want to know why.

I think if we had a consistent program, run the same way everywhere, you would have the actual numbers. It doesn't have to be hard, to count where the numbers are. And it wouldn't be catch us catch can. As I said, our military, in many…

A wall of this magnitude will be a scar in our landscape.

A concentrated market does reduce competition and puts control in the hands of only a few powerful players.

I think we reject the best of America and our values when we refuse to recognize all that immigrants bring and mean to this country.

Well, maybe let me put it this way: We have basically a guest worker program and a path to citizenship.

Well, I would hope we can, but I do not think you can do one without the other.

You have a remarkable story, and I am glad to hear your testimony in favor of comprehensive immigration reform.

And he is going to have to stay that way.