Joe Courtney actually said...

"There is not question, as the witnesses have said, that local and state officials in the area of school closings make the final call, but your direction, I think, is really what they look to."

"It has to be accurate information. You know, if that delays the message a little bit I think it is better to delay the message and get it right, rather than to push it out and then have to rescind it,..."

"So they were willfully negligent in the death of your stepfather, and it cost them a whopping $9,000?"

"We have got to put an end to this."