Theodore Deutch actually said...

"I suppose I would ask another way. You would agree that, given your eloquent testimony and the work that every one of you does every day in this area, that it is difficult if not impossible to accept ..."

"The proposals in this white paper, coming from ATF, are greatly concerning to a lot of us."

"They would weaken the authority of ATF; they would undermine the Agency's authority to protect public safety."

"If some in the White House want to dismantle the Federal Government, the executive branch, and hollow it out, it is going to make their foreign policy, our foreign policy, ineffective."