well said, hermione

As Hermione phrases it, sounding convincingly Kantian or even Russellian about something called the Resurrection Stone:

“How can I possibly prove it doesn’t exist? Do you expect me to get hold of — of all the pebbles in the world and test them? I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist.”

On Jim Webb's Vote for Warrantless Wiretapping

How could you do it? How could you give Pres Bush a blank check to listen in on the conversations of anybody he pleases. You have signed away our privacy. You have signed away our basic rights. I am appalled. I am beyond appalled.

I was proud and happy to vote for you, thinking that at last Virginia has one senator it can count on to do the right thing. Not anymore. You've betrayed the Constitution, and you've betrayed us.

George Allen, that witless moron, might as well have won the election.