The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.

We wouldn't have to take your rights away if you'd just stop exercising them.

Our sovereignty may be dependent on our ability to eavesdrop on transmissions between our enemies on the outside and those on the inside with sympathies for them. I trust my ability to determine who to mark for examination and so will you.

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.