Gerry Connolly actually said...

"I think all of us know the stories of sort of the unwitting compliance--unwitting in that people are sometimes too trusting or don't have their guards up."

"I think fraud would be far, far worse if we didn't have the FTC and other law enforcement agencies, you know, looking at this fraud and finding everybody who is culpable."

"When we look at, sort of, financial predation, it covers all kinds of classes of people--seniors, ordinary consumers, and even our Active Duty military families who can be taken advantage of in times ..."

"this is a massive human rights crisis and we want to see democracy flourish but we also want to see individual human rights and collective human rights of a minority group protected."