Judd Gregg

The single most important thing we can do in terms of our fiscal future is to put in place a process that can lead to a conclusion.

Simply because a company is large is not a reason a group of politicians should step in and break it up.

We are coming out of this recession and the world didn't devolve into chaos.

I think all of you basically in your testimony have said we are past the massive systemic risk of a financial meltdown that would have caused a cataclysmic event.

It should not now be used as a piggy bank for housing.

I do think there is, at least from my viewpoint, a legitimate question as to whether it has done its purpose and should be wrapped up.

Well, I don't see how it is in the interest of the taxpayer to only get 8 percent of the company for $4 billion when another entity gets 55 percent for $6 billion.

What's tragic is that so much of this spending is on duplicative or unnecessary care that doesn't improve health outcomes.

I think the starting point has to be the continued threat to our Nation from international terrorists, specifically Islamic fundamentalists, obtaining weapons of mass destruction.

It's like taking a teaspoon of water out of a bathtub while you keep the spigot on at full speed and the bathtub continues to fill up, the spigot of spending, the spigot of government growth.

My reaction is, it's a genuine and sincere effort to try to free up the credit markets and especially to balance the -- and get balance into the real estate markets, which is at the core of the financial problems.

The budget as it is proposed essentially nationalizes all income over $250,000, nationalizes health care, nationalizes student loans.