Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"This issue is so widespread, it does not admit of rhetorical solutions. There have to be real interventions in the marketplace somehow."

"the Trump Administration has threatened to eliminate about half of all highly protected areas in America's oceans, the largest ever rollback of ocean protections in the history of the United States"

"I'm proud of the work that I did and others joined me to persuade the Obama Administration to create the first-ever Marine Monument in the Atlantic Ocean."

"the idea that you pose challenges, I think, is a profound euphemism for what's really at stake here"