Elijah Cummings actually said...

"Some kind of way, we have to establish--you know, the majority has some concerns, and I think many of them probably quite legitimate. And there has to be a balance here."

"I am always concerned about people possibly dying as a result of something we might do in this committee."

"When people don't trust each other, it slows down everything. When they trust each other, it speeds it up."

"I have spent a phenomenal amount of time trying to protect witnesses."