Frank Lautenberg actually said...

"We shouldn't start any hearings here without extending our condolences to the families who lost loved ones."

"They paid a price for mismanagement that is irreparable."

"What a difference in perspective, because I was up in Alaska the third day that the Valdez was foundering."

"If I may, you were very generous in permitting this intrusion into the discussion of the bill at hand."