Political Quotes

“I won't use all of our time. I have a slightly different opinion than the ranking member's. I believe regular order has been followed on this bill, followed and then some. This is something that Dr. Paul has worked on, on a bipartisan basis, with Republican Presidents and Democratic Presidents, with Republican Congresses and Democratic Congresses. The support for this, as you saw here today, goes to Republicans and Democrats, Progressives, Conservatives, Blue Dogs. The American people want to know. I don't believe the American people are afraid to know. Of course, the American people would not be comfortable with interference with the Fed, with micromanaging policy decisions, with tearing down the institution. But, in fact, I think that the 9/11 of the financial market, if you will, the meltdown in 2008 and 2009, $1 trillion nearly in TARP money, and countless trillions in expansion of the balance sheet, have taught us one thing: what we don't know can hurt us. Now, before 9/11 of the financial market, before the meltdown, before Lehman Brothers and Bear, Stearns evaporated, we would have thought, well, there are some very smart people on Wall Street, and we'd have been right. But smart people can be wrong. We put very good people on the Federal Reserve Board. We choose very good chairmen. Chairman Bernanke was a choice of Republicans and Democrats alike.…”