Christopher Dodd actually said...

"Thank you for being here."

"I have always been very, very proud--a lot of the ideas that I have championed over the years... have come from this State."

"There is about a 20 percent increase in kids in school who are homeless, and one quarter--only one quarter of homeless children graduate from high school nationally."

"the passage of national health reform that you helped to shepherd through Congress earlier this year"