Christopher J. Dodd: “I know what a bailout is. I have seen them around here. This does not even come close to falling into that category.”

Congress should pass the Homeownership Preservation and Protection Act--two things to mention there--that Senator Dodd sponsored and many Members of the Committee co-sponsored.

Where were the regulators?

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 need to, as a country, both parties, all of our leaders need to work together to try to reverse this image.