Tom Carper actually said...

"What have you heard that just ain't so?"

"A lot of them are self-inflicted wounds, if you do not mind my saying so."

"The idea of simply doing this, the legislation that is before us today, and not stabilizing the exchanges, which are eminently stabilizable, eminently so, is a big mistake."

"That is actually an ad hominem attack, which I think is actually beneath the dignity of this body."