Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"I was astonished and troubled to learn that men's teams that exited in the very first round of the competition in the World Cup were paid $8 million, an amount 400 percent greater than what the women ..."

"The breadth of these violations I think has been somewhat inadvertently lost in these proceedings."

"In my view, this hearing is really only a beginning of an inquiry that the Congress has a responsibility to conduct."

"Would you say that that kind of voluntary system is sufficient to bring some higher degree of integrity to a corrupt system?"