“Throughout history, when our national security has been threatened, we have responded by reducing liberties, ... we ask: We not only want to survive, but survive living under what conditions?”
“This spin control stuff is not working when people are dying, ... You want to be supportive of the community and efforts like this, but when you see the parents, you see the crime, you see the young people dying and blood running in the streets . . . we need something more.”