Christopher J. Dodd: “You are not going to succeed in any one of these so-called stovepipes, unless you succeed in the other two.”

Senator Mel Martinez, of Florida, a Republican member of this Committee, and Dianne Feinstein, the Senator from California, were the two who really argued very strongly.

As Franklin Roosevelt said so eloquently more than 80 years ago, it is fear, and that fearing fear is what has, I think, had an awful lot to do with the lack of confidence in our country, and we need to get our confidence back.

We do not need ideology, and we do not need politics. We need clear-headed thinking.

I think our strength as a country relies on us as being an attractive model, and that has been diminished.