Christopher Dodd actually said...

"The world is now, as Senator Dodd said, in the crosscurrents of the most severe global economic contraction since the Great Depression."

"This committee and the Congress in its role in foreign policy has been at its strongest when we've been bipartisan."

"Your neighbor's house is on fire, you have a hose, you lend it to them."

"the country has been facing a growing housing problem that had its origins in the scourge of predatory lending."