Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"We need to move very aggressively and very urgently to make sure that the best and brightest are coming here and staying here."

"I have been a long-time advocate of the DREAM Act, both as State Attorney General and now as a United States Senator."

"I just differ with you strongly on the politics of this issue, and I think your argument really is grounded in a very pessimistic view of what the American public will support."

"You have given us a new DREAMer to call a model for why we should pass this act and expedite the earned citizenship status."