When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he [Saddam Hussein] is in power.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.

Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

American workers are first rate.

If you have got high-ranking officials reaching down five levels in the bureaucracy to drag an analyst up to their office to berate them and threaten their jobs because they don't like the conclusions about an intelligence matter, that, in my view, is dangerous.