we have got to work on some of these things in our own country as well.

If we really are accepting as a Congress a standard of outcomes of success that is just keeping the lights flickering... we are all going to rue the day that we did not have a more meaningful conversation about it.

We have got 14 million people that are unemployed that we have not been able to figure out how to put back to work.

This may surprise our witnesses, but there are people in this town that will say that things have to get worse before we can construct the politics that will actually solve the problem that we are facing.

I think it is very clear that what continues to elude us here is an alignment of incentives that could help create some velocity in the market.

If there was a silver bullet to solve negative equity and keep foreclosures at bay, I would definitely want that silver bullet.

Another way of saying negative equity, the issue is is there a way to prop up the values of people's homes, or do we need to take the pain as an economy going forward?

Sometimes in this town, I feel like people are forgetting what people in our States are really going through, through this incredibly difficult economic period.

A strong drug supply and distribution chain that protects U.S. consumers should not be a partisan issue.

We shouldn't wait for another tragedy.

We have got to figure out, as we're doing this, how to create a competitive biosciences industry here in the United States.