I think we've made the collection haystack so big, no one's ever getting through the haystack to find the needle. What we really need to do is isolate the haystack into a group of suspicious people and spend enormous resources looking at suspicious people, people who we have probable cause.

I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

I think it's a mistake to downgrade and say surveillance is no big deal. It is a huge deal that we are collecting millions of Americans phone calls and that someone can go to a keyboard and put your name in and search it without a warrant.

I love the Mexican people; I respect the Mexican leaders - but the leaders are much sharper, smarter and more cunning than our [American] leaders.

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, you don't build that.

I've introduced legislation to say, "For right now, let's stop it," from about 34 countries.