"It is extraordinary, and it is wrong, and the American public is on to it."
"Paul Volcker said it very succinctly very recently when he said that the financial demise that we have just witnessed is the result of executive compensation that has been linked to riskier and riskie..."
"It sounds fundamentally undemocratic that you don't have someone independently counting the ballots and that a majority is not required."
"I commend Congressman Nadler and Chairman Leahy for introducing twin bills on this issue."
"Thank you for holding this hearing on the Uniting American Families Act, which seeks to fix a fundamental injustice."
"The move towards replacing State regulatory authority with Federal... is seriously misplaced and misguided."
"That would suggest that we should reinstate the Glass Steagall Act, doesn't it?"
"you should never have been involved in derivatives. It was Glass Steagall that gave you the opportunity to get involved in derivatives."
"The difference is these are taxpayer entities, and we want taxpayer money to be returned to these taxpayer entities."
"So much of our taxpayer money in TARP and the bailouts of AIG and others have gone to private institutions."
"The bill deals just directly with losses incurred because of the Lehman investments."