Darrell Issa actually said...

"we own 80 percent of AIG; we are not likely to get paid it all back."

"If a Martian came down and said, what is the U.S. financial system designed to do, I am afraid they would say, it is designed to funnel money to Goldman Sachs."

"I hope that we all will leave today's hearing realizing that if we go too far, we endanger the American people's system of capitalism and limited free market that has allowed us to be the envy of the ..."

"We need to empower the stockholders of public companies to better manage the package of pay and incentive packages of their key executives."