Any time someone tries to tell you that metadata is 'meaningless, don't worry, it's just who you call, it's just phone records, it's not a big deal' - realize we kill people based on metadata. So they must be pretty darn certain that they think they know something based on metadata.

What I can say is, is that if you do a poll, and one of the worldwide polling companies did this, and they asked people in 50 countries, "Would you like to come to America," it's about 700 million would come next year. We would double our population.

If there were an ounce of courage in this body I would be joined by other senators… saying they will not tolerate this.

The current budget that the Republicans are looking at never balances. How can that be fiscally responsible? And how can we look at the public with a straight face and say yes we ran on balanced budgets.

The separation of powers is about legislative powers. It isn't about discussion or words.

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

I think those who have wanted regime [of Bashar Assad] change have made a mistake.