96 Quotes by Patrick Leahy

This is the way legislation used to be done when I first came here. There were many good things in this conference report, but not enough. Now we have six months to get it right.

They have squandered the surpluses ... the public's trust in corporate accountability and in the markets, and the opportunities to use the surpluses to protect and strengthen Medicare and Social Security and homeland defense,

There's a real potential of criminal conduct here, there will certainly be grand juries looking at this,

Data banks offer powerful tools for security screening, but they also raise privacy dangers.

I regret that instead of accepting our many previous invitations to work with the Senate and increase the level of consultation and cooperation to help fill judicial vacancies, the White House repeatedly has chosen to continue down its path of trying to politicize the process,

he said. ''But I really didn't come here to win a popularity contest. I came here to do what I thought was right.

gave the wrong impression to the rest of the world.

Most Americans want a sense of privacy. A lot of us don't realize how much of our privacy we're exposing by the internet.

She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] rejected the [George] Bush administration's claim that it could indefinitely detain a United States citizen. She upheld the fundamental principle of judicial review over the exercise of government power.