Gerry Connolly actually said...

"I mean I heard my friend Mr. Perry talk about maybe that old system of 10 advisors is what we ought to go back to."

"It is unfathomable to me that a four-star commander in the field would take guidance from a staffer in the bureaucracy."

"Secretary Powell is a man I admire greatly, and I have tremendous respect for Secretary Powell and his decades of service to our nation despite the poor judgment shown in this email."

"Thank God there were low-level people telling the President a different thing than Curtis LeMay during the Cuban Missile Crisis."