every other climate change solution in this building has had an allocation system because we don't see compliance.

I think Republicans and Democrats have to embrace things that we would never embrace before.

$350 billion was not well spent, the next $350 billion can be better spent, but it is not nearly enough.

This is an amazing country where people like me will decide these things.

The Government is involved. How much money would the Government save in the second option versus the first option in your opinion?

The bottom line about the stress test is that we are going to put some of these banks under stress and see if they are adequately capitalized.

A hundred percent auction of the credits will, I think, make it very difficult for a heavy-energy-user manufacturers.

The political system is better than the alternative, but as I sit here and listen about the different options and combinations, I am thinking as a politician, now what I sell people back home?

I just do not believe that is enough money to fix housing and banking, and I just wish you would say that.

Americans are not stupid. They know that this bailout is only a temporary solution.

67 percent of the republican Congress decided to put political ideology ahead of the best interests of our great nation.

67 percent of the Republican Congress decided to put political ideology ahead for the best interests of our great nation.

That jobs will be lost, the unemployment rate will rise, more houses will be foreclosed upon, GDP will contract, that the economy will not just be able to recover in a normal, healthy way, no matter what other policies are taken.

Senator Obama keeps talking about an immediate withdrawal as soon as he gets to be president. The last time, I understand, he was in Iraq was in 2006. I would recommend that he go back.

What campaign memos? I mean, what's that about? That was very bizarre to me.

When he was going through his impeachment problems, it was the black community that bellied up to the bar.

We cannot tamp down that enthusiasm, or we will not be successful in November.

I have had people that said to me, how could you, as a proud African-American, you cannot speak out, when you can see the race card is being played against African-Americans?