Bennie Thompson actually said...

"There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam."

"The narrow scope of this hearing is discriminatory, and it is an abuse of power."

"This committee is setting a dangerous precedent in treating one religious group different than another."

"Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational, or socioeconomic background . . . The most effective means of identifying terrorists is through their behavior--not ethnicity, race or..."