Certainly the Patriot Act would have never been passed, because it wasn't available to us... It was almost 400 pages long, and became available less than an hour before it was debated on the House floor... The congressmembers were intimidated, 'if I do nothing, my people gonna be mad, because they want us to do something'. And the people are frightened. When they are frightened, they are much more willing to give us their liberties. But giving up their liberties won't make them safer, that's the real sad part of it.

The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George. I accept the definition of patriot…

This essential principle of our Constitutional Republic is being ridden roughshod over by imperial Washington, which bullies local governments into accepting i…

Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society.

I voted against it (the USA Patriot Act) because certain provisions of the Act represent a very dangerous infringement on our civil liberties.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations... [It] brings us into very dangerous territory and it coul…

If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent - that's good enough.