Nancy Talanian Quotations

We want the local police to do what they were meant to do -- protect their citizens.

People have a lot on their mind and many things demanding their attention. There's a war going on, and other things.

As we have gotten further away from Sept. 11 and we've had more debate about what the government is doing and whether it is justified, and whether it's really protecting us or just taking away rights, those concerns have been growing.

In the four years since the PATRIOT Act's enactment, a broad range of Americans have petitioned their state and local governments to protect them from unwarranted surveillance and other excesses of the federal government. Eight state legislatures and nearly 400 local and county governments have responded by passing resolutions upholding the civil liberties of their 85 million constituents, who make up one-third of the U.S. population. Such a large, powerful, and nonpartisan groundswell of people acting locally to hold their federal elected representatives accountable is unparalleled in U.S. history. We commend Senator Feingold for reading the state resolutions of Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Montana, and Vermont, and the county and local government resolutions of his home state of Wisconsin aloud to his Senate colleagues yesterday.