Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"So the question is: where should the buck stop?"

"It is really a tribute to her work that she is here today."

"This subject is one very, very close to my heart as a former Attorney General for a couple of decades in Connecticut."

"I am here regretfully in place of Chairman Rockefeller, who has an urgent intel, intelligence matter and therefore could not be with us at the opening."