In the 1930s, we tried the idea of no Federal role in home finance. It did not work out.

It's time to stop punishing India for becoming a nuclear state.

That is FHA's mission, to step forward and play a larger role when we have a downturn.

It is going to be very hard to force this regime to change its behavior and to give up its nuclear weapons.

Iran has no legitimate fears, not even illegitimate fears of Israel. They do not share a border.

Defending that treaty is critical, since without it I am sure there would be dozens of nuclear states and we would have experienced several nuclear wars by now.

The world has avoided the destruction that many predicted when the nuclear genie was unleashed in 1945, chiefly because of the Nonproliferation Treaty.

We have a lot of capital on the sidelines, as the gentleman from California pointed out.

As I understand our official human rights formula, it is the number of human rights violations divided by the number of million barrels of oil exported by the relevant country.

Whether the worst elements of the Syrian opposition are worse than the worst elements of the Assad regime I leave to another hearing.

I want to thank you for the wisdom to recognize that our country needs an expansionary monetary policy.

In my view, if that had happened, America would look somewhere between Greece and Thunderdome.