Jackie Speier actually said...

"We can't have that happen again. And I want your advice on what we should do to make sure that your agency becomes the toughest, most scrupulous cop in the Nation."

"If we have learned nothing else in the last few months, it is that there wasn't the vigilance at the SEC."

"The proposal for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency that we are talking about today is, I believe, one of the most important reforms to come out of this economic meltdown."

"It is far too generous to say that financial institutions were simply opportunistic for selling exotic mortgages to working people and pushing credit cards on students who were unlikely to be able to ..."