Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico, in an insurgent Senate debate today on the Patriot Act led by Rand Paul of Kentucky:
“In the Middle East…” people are “striving for more freedom, striving for more democracy,” and we support them. “Here on the floor of the United States Senate we are not willing to analyze what this so-called Patriot Act has done to our freedom.”
Paul: “We are being quieted down. We are being told to sit quietly in the back of the room and not make waves.. They call this the world’s greatest deliberative body. We’re unwilling to deliberate [this issue].”
