Chris Dodd: “Had Thomas Jefferson had the Congressional Budget Office around, he wouldn't have gone.”

The truth is that the catastrophe was years in the making caused by regulatory negligence and Wall Street gambling.

There's nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest.

I'll tell you, one of the things I feel very good about is that there are people like Bob Menendez, who care about these issues.

In fact, it was the uncertainty inherent in a nontransparent and reckless financial system that made Dodd-Frank necessary in the first place.