"Too big to fail means too big to exist."
"Let us talk about breaking up those that are too big to fail before we talk about bailing them out."
"We need to design a system for the future that is bailout free."
"The G-20 will never do this. We have a right to say that you cannot borrow more than a certain amount from Americans as a single financial institution."
"The Federal Reserve is a very powerful government agency exercising government power. The proposal now is to give them a lot more power."
"We have got so many conflicts of interest and so little time."
"We are going to lose 47,000 jobs if you prosecute."
"We certainly all want to make things work better for consumers."
"Absolutely. And we have had a lot of hearings in this room about rate caps, and sometimes they seem like a good idea, and sometimes they don't."
"The only thing perhaps more important than protecting consumers is protecting the Constitution."
"We need to make sure that credit default swaps and similar derivatives are classified as insurance, and are subject to reserves."