"I just want to get a clear answer, will you or will you not make public how the money that has been received by these banks in TARP have been spent?"
"I find that absolutely unbelievable and irresponsible that one agency of government has been able to access information."
"I will be very pleased to meet with him."
"There are people who want to see the TARP fail, they want to be able to say I told you so."
"Our first and only goal should be maximizing the profits for the taxpayers."
"The taxpayers have spent more than $2 trillion to turn around an economic crisis that had its foundation in the insatiable appetite of Wall Street for the high yields provided by mortgage-backed secur..."
"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 ..."
"I disagree with my distinguished chairman, Mr. Kanjorski, who does not believe as I do that State regulation is really where insurance regulation should take place."