Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"The positions that you are hopefully going to occupy are positions of immense trust and importance to our justice system."

"A constitutional right to privacy obviously cannot include the right to engage in private conduct which was condemned as criminal at the very time that the Constitution was ratified."

"You are really going to serve as the protectors and guardians of our Nation's legal conscience."

"The urgency of this cause, I think, is no less, perhaps even more than it was when we last discussed it."