Quotes.

• Position: Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Senators Dianne Feinstein and John McCain - Brief article

"I feel I have an obligation to do everything I can to keep this country safe. So put that in your pipe and smoke it."

--Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), defending the National Security Agency's secret mass surveillance, The New York Times, July 2

"The legislation concerning beefed-up border security removes any validity to the argument that border security is not sufficient. I mean, this is not only sufficient; it is well over sufficient. We'll be the most militarized border since the fall of the Berlin Wall."

--Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on a proposed amendment to immigration legislation...