Christopher Dodd actually said...

"The question is how do you do this. We all recognize the problem. Now what is the answer?"

"What we are trying to do here is fashion, obviously, a piece of legislation that comprehensively deals with all of this, and the hope is we are going to do that when we get back in the fall."

"The most common argument is not that it's a bad idea--it's that consolidation is too politically difficult."

"That shouldn't govern what decision is made."