"I think this hearing is important, not only because it affects consumers so much, but it affects the artists and the music that we all love."
"So many of them are not going to be the big superstars, but they may make it for a year or two."
"I hope the Hart-Scott-Rodino process plays itself out."
"Because the testimony here from opponents to the merger focused on the primary ticketing business, and allowing the number two primary ticketing company to do business in the United States freely woul..."
"We ask the country to strive toward the best possible policy options, not just to joyfully embrace anything on the theory that it is better than inaction."
"Transparency is good, but insufficient. We see clearly, transparently, that the Federal Government was screwed out of $78 billion."
"I believe that the taxpayer should be 'unscrewed.'"
"To think that still today even in the worst of times ordinary working people can buy--borrow 3 or 4 hundred thousand dollars is amazing and it is not available in an awful lot of other countries."
"I thought it was a shame that two porn industry executives would pull this publicity stunt. America faces some really difficult times. We need to focus our national attention on the kinds of reforms t..."
"I'm going to ask you to raise your hand if you're planning to sell your jet in place now and fly back commercial. Let the record show no hands went up."
"Wall Street wants the $700 billion so bad they can taste it. To get it, they need two things. First, you create panic. Then you block alternatives, and then you heard the stampeding cattle toward pass..."
"Wall Street wants the $700 billion so bad, they can taste it. To get it, they need two things. First, you create panic. Then you block alternatives. And then you herd the stampeding cattle toward pass..."