"Who are these useless hanks of bone and fat that call themselves Senators of the United States? ... Make no mistake: despite all the lies and distorted media soundbites, the draconian strictures of this bill apply to American citizens as well as to all them devilish foreigners." — chris floyd

"Thomas Jefferson: I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution ... Arlen Specter said that the bill sends us back 900 years because it denies habeas corpus protections. Then he voted for it."—Glenn Greenwald