Gerry Connolly actually said...

"I strongly reject that notion."

"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."