"if an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist."
"I am concerned that the same people on Wall Street who were part of the problem are still in office."
"At a time when the taxpayers of this country are providing hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out Wall Street."
"we are going to break them up"
"I voted against the repeal of Glass-Steagall... I do not believe in unregulated financial institutions"
"the most severe--certainly the most severe--economic period of my lifetime."
"Don't you think we have a right to know a little bit more than these banks are telling us?"
"I proposed the surtax on people whose families had at least a million dollars in income, because they are the people who benefited from Bush's economic policies in general."
"In other words, some people became incredibly rich, and then when things got bad, it is the average Joe who has to bail them out."
"But if we do something----"
"The former Chairman of this Committee, Joe Biden, who is soon to leave the Senate for another job, worked so hard on."
"We have to act quickly and decisively to shore up State and local law enforcement or face reversal of the really great strides we made in the '90s at reducing crime."
"an effective way to protect our citizens and create jobs, that begin rebuilding our economy and our communities, with confidence, would be to restore Federal support for State and local law enforcemen..."
"So we have to act now. We have got to do something to reverse the nearly 50 percent reduction in overall funding for State and local law enforcement."
"We then had one very important thing happen: we had 9/11, which put huge additional burdens on State and local law enforcement."
"I'm happy to be an original co-sponsor of that Act."
"we seem to be robbing that public--nothing against protecting this country from terrorism, but when you do so by robbing hometown security at the expense of homeland security"
"The coordination. Commissioner, the need for better coordination."
