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Americans want to defeat terrorism and they want the basic character of this country to survive and prosper. They want both security and liberty, and unless we give them both, and we can if we try, we have failed.

— Russ Feingold

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Of course, there is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists.

This conduct is right in the strike zone of the concept of high crimes and misdemeanors.

Something is happening in this country tonight. I don’t understand it completely. I don’t think anybody does.

The president and others say that if we leave, it will just be chaos in Iraq. Well, right now when you come to Iraq, you can't even drive from the airport to the Green Zone.

But that probably would not be a country in which we would want to live. And that would not be a country for which we could, in good conscience, ask our young people to fight and die. In short, that would not be America.

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