"If someone's describing what the future will be 30 years from now, and they paint a picture that you think looks like a science fiction movie, they might be right, they might be wrong."
"We're going to be living in a science fiction movie. We just don't know which one yet."
"What I tell you we can guarantee that if we break up the too-big-to-fail institutions and I am still looking for co-sponsors, particularly bipartisan co-sponsors, on that effort."
"I couldn't agree with you more that credit unions need to be allowed and, in fact, encouraged to serve the underserved."
"We couldn't find any U.S. businesses, small and medium-sized business to make loans to. We had this capital so we sent it to London where it was eaten by the whale."
"It is up to this committee to step in and get the FASB to delay, and if they don't, to actually pass legislation withdrawing this CECL regulation."
"Legitimacy, governmental legitimacy is critical, because the question the people always ask is, why are those folks running things?"
"When China tries to get extraterritorial power over Sri Lanka through a debt instrument, we should respond appropriately."
"If the gentleman would yield, I will point out that there is a significant territorial dispute between India and China, and in the 1960's, there was more than one armed conflict over that."
"We do not engage in debt trap financing. When a U.S. Government entity makes a loan, it is with the expectation that the loan is affordable, can be repaid, and can be repaid normally out of the projec..."
"I would point out that America does not seek a $300 billion trade surplus with China."