"If I were starting a new country, I would not have it. I don't think it is ideal tax policy."
"I don't think there are 50 votes to get rid of it."
"I wish the gentleman from New Jersey was right and Dodd-Frank completely eliminated too-big-to-fail."
"The average non-homeowning family in this country has an average net worth, value of everything they own in the world, of under $5,000."
"I commend the gentleman from Staten Island on the importance--on his statement that we should keep the home mortgage deduction."
"It feels like generation theft that my kids and grandkids cannot enjoy the benefits that we have had in place since 1913."
"The record should show that when I say only the 10 largest markets, that was facetious."
"We hope Japanese authorities get the upper hand and resolve this crisis. The people of Japan are in our prayers."
"We need to reform the Atomic Energy Act, and I commend the chairwoman for her decision to introduce legislation to do just that."
"the only bills the President is going to sign this year are appropriations bills and post offices."
"if it is not in the appropriations bill, it is never going to become law."
"In the Year 2000, the United States made an enormous blunder in granting Permanent Most Favored Nation status to China."