Gerry Connolly actually said...

"We do have a kind of a tension or a balance in our public schools and, by the way, our public universities too, between individual freedom and democracy."

"It is very easy to feel that your group is somehow being unfairly targeted and made a victim."

"We are going to advance the First Amendment values that all of us hold dear, if we can step a little bit beyond our own sense of grievance."

"The People's Republic of China should take note, it must be held accountable for its many violations of sovereignty and international law in the Himalayas, the South China Sea, the East China Sea."