Christopher Dodd actually said...

"There were hundreds of thousands of bad loans. Hundreds of thousands of them."

"I think that should be preserved."

"A year later, taxpayers are forced to pump billions of dollars into our major banking institutions to keep them afloat."

"The alternative was losing, in my view, the entire section on executive excessive compensation. Given the choice -- this is not an uncommon occurrence here -- I agreed to a modification in the legisla..."