Ben Cardin actually said...

"Well, let me thank you for your testimony. We hear statistics and it is important to understand that every one of those statistics is a person and a family."

"I believe that you would find the statistical information on most of the status crimes that I have talked about."

"When I heard about John McGraham being doused with gasoline and set ablaze, I was shocked and horrified that this could happen to a fellow human being and just wondered where we are heading."

"When I hear the horrific stories about murders, assaults, and rapes committed against our Nation's homeless, I ask myself: Is this really America?"