"Most entities will eventually work in their own interest. Patriotic speeches and appeals to patriotism only go so far."
"I think it's important not who pays the credit rating agency, but who selects the credit rating agency."
"The arguments against a per se rule are more complex."
"I never thought I would do in Congress is to disagree with someone who used the phrase, 'Genius of the Sherman Act.'"
"It is absurd on its face that our economic policy would be determined by an entity that has no economists on staff."
"We here in Congress are in Costco every day, at least one of us. We talk to real consumers."
"I have never had a constituent complain that prices were too low."
"I have received at least 1,000 complaints about high prices."
"Can you give us a chart for each TARP recipient."
"In other words you won't commit to telling the American people how many folks at Goldman-Sachs or AIG are going to make a million dollars this year?"
"When they make money, we -- half the profit goes to Wall Street. When they lose money 94 percent of the loss goes to the taxpayer."
"When they make money, we -- have the profit goes to Wall Street. When they lose money, 94 percent of the loss goes to the taxpayer."