Brad Sherman

Most entities will eventually work in their own interest. Patriotic speeches and appeals to patriotism only go so far.

I have received at least 1,000 complaints about high prices.

I have never had a constituent complain that prices were too low.

We here in Congress are in Costco every day, at least one of us. We talk to real consumers.

It is absurd on its face that our economic policy would be determined by an entity that has no economists on staff.

I never thought I would do in Congress is to disagree with someone who used the phrase, 'Genius of the Sherman Act.'

The arguments against a per se rule are more complex.

In other words you won't commit to telling the American people how many folks at Goldman-Sachs or AIG are going to make a million dollars this year?

Can you give us a chart for each TARP recipient.

When they make money, we -- have the profit goes to Wall Street. When they lose money, 94 percent of the loss goes to the taxpayer.

When they make money, we -- half the profit goes to Wall Street. When they lose money 94 percent of the loss goes to the taxpayer.

In other words you won't commit to telling the American people how many folks at Goldman-Sachs or AIG are going to make a million dollars this year?

Can you give us a chart for each TARP recipient.

I think we need to divorce the rescue authority from the regulatory authority.

These companies are not too big to fail. It is said that they are too interconnected to fail.

What we ought to have done, what we can still do, is to put into receivership those financial institutions that are insolvent...

But "too big to fail" is not only an attack on the taxpayers...

"Too big to fail"--those words are an affront to capitalism.

The intellectual property industry is what keeps Los Angeles afloat and functioning.

I think that those who provide us with music are entitled to be paid for it.

I think one of the key problems that got us into this mess is that companies issued insurance on portfolio's without insurance regulation or insurance reserves.

I am concerned that we are seeing taxpayer money transferred to Wall Street based on the political power of the entities involved.

Systemic risk regulator--everybody knows that we need one, but nobody knows what it is.

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 would, I think, open competition in that…

I hope the Hart-Scott-Rodino process plays itself out.