Patrick Leahy
Patrick Leahy
Patrick Joseph Leahyis an American politician and the senior United States Senator from Vermont. He has been in office since 1975. A member of the Democratic Party, Leahy served as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate from December 17, 2012, to January 6, 2015. As President pro tempore, he was third in the presidential line of succession. He is the most senior senator and took office at a younger age than any other current senator. Leahy received...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 March 1940
CountryUnited States of America
We have reached the point that if you have a medical record, credit card or computer, you have a privacy problem,
There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices.
A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
The President and Vice-President have been consistent alright-consistently wrong. There is no value in that.
We are planning on having Thanksgiving in Washington,
While we have made some progress, much is left to be done.
Data banks offer powerful tools for security screening, but they also raise privacy dangers.
This was the memo that basically justified the United States be involved in torture,
There's a real potential of criminal conduct here, there will certainly be grand juries looking at this,
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 no way we can ask for a treaty that has one standard for the United States and another for the rest of the world.
The bottom line is with that enormous power comes enormous responsibility and frankly I have not seen anything in the Rich pardon suggesting to me the responsibility was fully carried out,