A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
~ William Randolph
In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.
~ Jim Sensenbrenner
The Patriot Act is ludicrous. Terrorists have proved that they are interested in total genocide, not subtle little hacks of the U.S. infrastructure, yet the government wants a blank search warrant to spy and snoop on everyone's communications.
~ Kevin Mitnick
In a country where Americans sense, quite genuinely, that their freedoms have been taken away by the government - as in the U.S. Patriot Act, as in NSA surveillance - people feel powerless.
~ Jay Parini
I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.
~ Joseph Brodsky
