Christopher J. Dodd: “As fewer and fewer people visit our great country, I think our economy is going to be hurt by that.”

I think the high rate at one point in the Nixon Administration is we were spending something close to 6 percent of the Federal budget on secondary and elementary education in this country, the Federal Government was.

I hope that we will get in the next administration regulators who understand what their duty and obligation is.

I think Senator Akaka did it as well. Sheila Bair... has just done a remarkable job.

I think we should look at our choices. We can come down to where we allocate resources and how we make choices between the issue of tax cuts for the top 1 percent of income earners versus investing in a No Child Left Behind bill.