"I trust you'll enforce the death penalty according to the laws of the United States?"
"Solutions, however, crafted in haste, rarely are effective and, even worse, can be counterproductive, as TARP."
"I voted against the TARP because Treasury's warnings and promises seemed calculated to induce panic rather than to ensure proper stewardship of taxpayer dollars."
"I don't believe that the Congress should try to fool the American people."
"I think that the TARP program was induced by panic."
"I opposed the TARP program. I knew it was flawed then. We all know it now."
"We should not keep banks operating that are insolvent."
"A 33-percent failure rate does not to me exactly provide confidence to the market that either Treasury or any of the Federal regulators, including the Fed understood the term 'healthy' or used that te..."
"One of the stated purposes that we have all talked about here of the TARP is to maximize overall returns to the taxpayers."
"The American people can stand the truth. They can stand the truth."
"The American people, as you well know right now--you can see it in polls, you can just go home, any of us can--they don't trust the TARP program."
"We need to be vigilant, I believe, that banks are not pressured to lend to politically favored borrowers, either side."
"Trust in the banking system, especially Wall Street banks right now, it doesn't exist."
"We used to look at Wall Street and say they were the smartest people in the world. Now, that has been doubted today in a lot of ways."
"Absolutely right."
"I believe one of the primary failings of the recent bailouts of the GSEs, AIG, and Bear Stearns was the intent of protecting any creditors from losses."
"As I have said many times and will continue to say, I believe that before we discuss how to modernize our regulatory structure, or even before we consider how to address the current financial crisis, ..."
"Shouldn't those decisions be made by the President and the Congress, who are accountable to the people?"