Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"The success of this very, very important national priority depends on having the best and the brightest."

"The Federal Government is failing you."

"I want to shift a little bit in terms of modernization to one of the key challenges in my view, although it may not involve hardware in the most direct sense, and that is the downsizing of our force a..."

"What can be changed in those procurement policies, which have so handicapped other branches of government as well in similarly urgent tasks?"