"I for one have lost patience with China and our trade policies toward China."
"But the other approach is for us to force a crisis in this relationship because I think we already have a crisis for the United States."
"I do want to mention a word or two about the bill I'll be re-introducing."
"the failure of the credit rating agencies were essential cogs in the wheel of financial destruction"
"Dodd-Frank redirects the CFTC to adopt commodity position limits in order to prevent excessive price fluctuation and, of course, deliberate market manipulation."
"So it is worse for home buyers, worse for home sellers, worse for communities, and worse for the taxpayer."
"It is a buyer's market. We need to take advantage of this buyer's market, and at some point if these owners instead use their legal entitlements to put up mansions, we will never be able to restore th..."
"Unfortunately, we live in an unreasonable world. Poverty does not correlate with international terrorism."
"I believe in foreign aid development because it is the right thing to do. But we are told to go to our districts and sell it as a necessary component in the war on terrorism, something we do for our n..."
"So simple poverty alleviation itself cannot be justified as a good investment in our, in the global war on terrorism."
"The United States will be hosting the APEC conference in 2011, and I hope that we will host it in Los Angeles."