"I would hope that banks would be less free to rip off consumers and less free to rip off the U.S. taxpayer through some new bailout program."
"The other problem I have with this rule is it is written by economists who have this absurd belief that everyone else in the country is an economist."
"If you are going to provide more protection and less freedom, you would think you would do that for my 86-year-old mother rather than for me."
"It is absurd for us to have two different rules."
"We are not here to live in a fantasy world."
"Certainly, one source of terrorism is Iran. We are entering into this deal in which we are supposed to waive the sanctions that were enacted to deal with their nuclear program."
"I want to assure you, Bank Melli is the stinkiest bath water out there. This is not a beautiful baby."
"It is not our job here to grade the President of the United States or his predecessors."
"Ms. Bautista, the problems for land grabbing in the Philippines, are they widespread throughout the country or focused only in some of the provinces?"
"I think field hearings are an important part of what our committee does."
"America has an interest in the economic and political development of Southeast Asian countries."