The Bernie Madoff fraud was a punch to the gut of our financial system which was already reeling from too many haymakers...
Today's SEC appears stagnant and behind the times, almost always closing the barn door too late.
I think we are a far cry from the SEC that was established by Joseph Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s.
This kind of exemptive rule is, in my view, deregulation carried to excess.
I want to thank the witnesses and thank the Chairman. I look forward to the testimony.
You cannot be your own watchdog.
That is why Senator Shelby and I, among others, are introducing the Safe Markets Act today, which, among other things, w...
We are sending an unequivocal message that the United States will be energetic, focused, strategic, and serious about ad...
President Obama's repeal of the global gag rule, which has prevented women around the world from gaining access to essen...
Throughout our hemisphere, we have opportunities to enhance cooperation to meet common economic, security, and environme...
Special Envoy Mitchell will lead our efforts to reinvigorate the process for achieving peace between Israel and its neig...
Ambassador Holbrooke would coordinate across the entire [U.S.] Government an effort to achieve strategic goals in the re...
I think that the State Department has a very big responsibility to improve its capacity with respect to both diplomacy a...
I hope we will put meaningful preconditions that will put a stop to some of the root problems of the continuing violence...
There is a need to deal with this problem of smuggling, that this is a problem which will continue to exist if we don't ...
I don't think there is any substitute for having seasoned professionals and experts leading our efforts on diplomacy and...
I think it's an opportunity now for us to use dialogue and diplomacy, where we can, to take that forward.
I want you to give me the best advice you can. I want you to understand there is nothing that I welcome more than a good...
