Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"If this litigation is ended and your revenue is almost $3 billion a year, why do you need the Saudis' billion dollars?"

"To have them taken over by a repressive foreign regime certainly is a matter of our national security."

"Instead of accepting this amount of money--call it an investment, call it financing--from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, did you explore other sources of potential investment?"

"I have the deepest sympathy for the families of 9/11 and support their efforts of obtaining information currently being withheld by the United States and Saudi governments."