Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"I find it somewhat alarming that the keystone to our air superiority for the next decades can be so easily, in effect, reproduced, by the Chinese in so short a period of time."

"the burden of proof, in effect, is on the argument that there should be no competition."

"I was thinking the last gold rush was by horse-drawn wagon, so we have come a long way, although our ultimate aspirations may be very similar."

"Conversely, anybody who is familiar with the history of war knows that abuses in the use of aircraft bombing, carpet bombing involving unintended damage or perhaps sometimes intended damage to civilia..."