"Your agency is now crafting rules defining Qualified Mortgages, which will govern how housing finance works in the future."
"We ought to be focusing a bit on burden sharing."
"The best way to mourn our heroes is to avoid the tendency here in Washington to politicize things."
"Disasters are going to happen, and when they happen, Ayn Rand is not going to be in control of the United States Congress and we are going to appropriate money for the uninsured losses of victims."
"Those who believe that if we spend zero money promoting disaster insurance now we can also have a zero special appropriation when a disaster hits had better get themselves time machines because that i..."
"I think a lot of us have learned that terrorism insurance is something that the vast majority of medium-sized businesses need and want, and that these are risks that cannot be priced by the private se..."
"One of the important things in protecting the American homeland is to prevent the radicalization of those who are fluent in English and could be the most effective terrorists operating here."
"In general, we have not done enough to push the Chinese on human rights."
"Washington and Wall Street have backed the trade policies over the last 20 years. We see the results."
"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."