Christopher Dodd actually said...

"Thank you very much, Chairman Bair, and thank you again for your tremendous involvement over these many, many months."

"We have established an early warning system so that we never again find out that a financial product or practice is unsafe only after it has already undermined the stability of our economy."

"It is a great question to ask, Mike, on this, because for years, in fact, it was the independence..."

"we are well on our way to putting this, 'badly needed' Dodd-Frank Act into effect."