Maggie Hassan actually said...

it's absolutely unacceptable that our athletes at any point in time could feel that their voices weren't important.

the notion that you would think they could be manipulated by trial lawyers and that you would speak of them that way is just deeply, deeply ...

we keep trying to make excuses for this unbelievable horror that these young people have experienced and it really needs to stop.

And one might suggest that they never should have needed to sue the university in the first place.