Breadth Quote by Howard Berman

Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we…

— Edward Snowden

The Patriot Act has increased the flow of information within our government, and it has helped break up terror cells in the United States…

— George W. Bush

Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law,…

— Roger Wicker

In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate…

— Mike Pence

There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and…

— Rand Paul

People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down…

— Robert Mueller

It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would…

— Julian Sanchez

The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that…

— Michael K. Simpson

One of the things we're going to have to discuss and debate is how are we striking this balance between the need to keep…

— Barack Obama

I realize there are a lot of folks in my political party who disagree with me on this, but I think the Patriot Act…

— Jason Kander

What we've begun to do is discuss the issue, the constitutional issues around that idea, again the privacy issue, which may not be unconstitutional…

— Chris Asplen

By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was…

— John Ashcroft