Brad Sherman actually said...

"This is simply absurd to have you gentlemen come to us and say, we gave MFN for China, we saw the result."

"Nothing prevents a man from understanding something so much that his livelihood depends upon him not understanding it."

"If you don't bail us out, we are going to take the whole economy down with us."

"A negative security assurance, with all due respect to the Executive Branch of Government, is pretty meaningless without it being a treaty."