Tom Carper actually said...

"We had no pension fund, we had no cash management system."

"I think equality is a prerequisite to democracy, and any other solution that does not give us full equality, I think, is like asking us to sit in the middle of the bus."

"We pay taxes, we serve in the armed forces, we do everything that other citizens do, if necessary die in foreign wars, but we do not have the full rights of democracy."

"Thanks for being here today and for your leadership of the control board all those many years ago."