We take responsibility for those things that Americans have to deal with. We don't like dealing with it. You don't like dealing with it. But we have to. So we're prepared. In our court system in America, whether it's in New York or…

I have listened to my friends on the Republican side of the aisle, and the only word that comes to mind is a Yiddish word called ``chutzpah.'' Here my friends on the Republican side of the aisle are talking about the debt, they're talking…

I am proposing, one, to limit the amount of deposits a single institution can take, which right now is 10 percent.

I do not believe that, and I think that the investment banking community is all about risk.

Are the owners of Countrywide actually having a say in what he is making? I mean, if I am the owner of the company, I am going to want that in my pocket as a dividend.

How is it that an executive gets $148 million. I mean how does that pay come about.

They deserve a medical facility worthy of their service.

I would like to acknowledge the work of former Senator Ken Salazar on this project, he was a strong partner with me.

I applaud Secretary Shinseki and President Obama for bringing closure to this long-awaited decision to move forward with this project.

Now, I am equally pleased that Senator Mark Udall and Senator Michael Bennet picked up where Senators Salazar and Allard left off.

I mean, I don't think there's any question about that. And that was put in the TARP II legislation that we passed to the Senate, that's still sitting over there.

You were one of the first to raise this on the effect on local governments, whether they were hospital districts or school districts or whatever.