Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"You do not go to John Gotti and say, Mr. Gotti, there is really too much heroin on the streets of New York. Could you cut back on it a bit?"

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

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

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