We can't just waste that money. It has to be productively utilized.
I would like to follow up on these agreements.
I join you in welcoming our witness, Dr. Ines R. Triay.
Well, they did a fabulous job.
I just think we need to thank the men and women in uniform who made that happen.
We can hope it would continue to maintain its democratic traditions.
This is a sovereign nation and an important nation and I hope that we can all remember that.
Pakistan has been a long-time ally of the United States. This is a very important nation.
I appreciate these hearings that you are putting together, and, gosh, we could be here all week and learn a heck of a lot.
I think we ought to pay particular attention to that.
Absolutely.
You cannot stop everybody from failing. You have to have a mechanism where the people who were unsuccessful get taken over and replaced by p...
I believe myself that they have utterly failed as a regulator, utterly, because most of our Wall Street banks that got in trouble, and some ...
The SEC's Consolidated Supervised Entity Program, I believe was not a success.
I hope we will resist any move--any move--that gives anybody that kind of power and basically renders almost every other entity in Governmen...
I have a deep faith that continues to this very day, that markets do a better job disciplining risk than bureaucrats do.
I wish we had established that principle more clearly.
I want to thank you, like Senator Dodd did, for your contribution.
