Steve Cohen actually said...

"Discretion is conferred on the President and on the department head."

"It's regrettable. And I regret to inform the critics that neither the facts nor the laws support their positions that these hearings are based upon."

"consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds and we don't want to be considered that"

"The President took executive action to clarify what the private sale of guns are. And to help close that loophole and the President did it because Congress failed to act."