"I hope my colleagues will support my legislation to require Americans to register if they go to a war zone."
"He saw it in 2020 when President Donald Trump announced that we would be out by May 1 of 2021."
"Imagine how harsh they will be to a girl whose father was in the Afghan Army trying to kill the Taliban."
"It is amazing that it wasn't much, much worse."
"Americans say the economy is the most important thing. In a free market system, the allocation of capital is the most important thing in the economy."
"The people think that the most important institutions at the national level are the President and Congress. I believe that they are the Federal Reserve, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)..."
"We need bond rating agencies and we need reliable ones."
"The rating agencies inflated mortgage-backed securities and other asset-based securities, and that this was a primary cause of the 2008 financial crisis."
"The system we have now would be for baseball as if the home team selected the umpire."
"I strongly disagree with Mr. Linnell when he says that it is just fine if a rating is expressed as big A, small A, three, epsilon, omega, or something else equally confusing."
"If I am in a bond fund, they send me a list of all of the bonds they own and the ratings."
"To say that things should be deliberately confusing shows a contempt for ordinary Americans."