"Would you as the Secretary furnish this committee a detailed report of all the debt, where it is, the exposures, the guarantees and so forth, so we know what road we are traveling down?"
"What elements of the Geithner plan can be implemented immediately."
"How do we restart the securitization of markets, which you think is so important to our financial--how do we bring thrust back to that, because securitization worked so well until it was abused and mi..."
"I do. And I believe, and Senator Dodd knows, in this committee, we are going to have to restructure our regulatory system."
"Unvarnished."
"I hope you will not, once you flesh out your concept, it will be a TARP II or something like it. If it is, you are headed down the wrong road again."
"Is this plan, conceptually, a 180-degree turn from the Paulson plan? Or is it kind of the son of Paulson?"
"this might be important or something like this, but that straightening out the banking system, bringing trust, making loans to the communities, I mean the people in the communities, was 1,000 times mo..."
"The Bush Administration, Secretary Paulson, Chairman Bernanke, misled the people, the Congress and the people of the United States."
"I am concerned, especially given the limited life of the TARP program, that employees of TARP may be facing significant... conflicts of interest."
"Americans have a right to know, I believe, where their money went and whether it is working, which many are doubtful."
"If they do not fear you, they are going to play with you."
"Not one single person held by the United States military was ever waterboarded."
"I just worry about some very important issues, to me."
"The people who abused those prisoners in Abu Ghraib were found by the military."
"I just want to defend the U.S. military."
"I always thought that was not a sound view and was amazed by it."
"I think there's a danger with--with many, particularly, constitutional provisions, that--that there has to be great rigor in applying them."
