Chris Dodd

I think we all have a renewed sense of hope that there's a possibility we're going to start really taking some very concrete actions.

You ought to insist it be a part of it, because it's a critical--I mean, there's so many diverse interests.

Elections have to take place at some point in time, and elections start by influencing the hearts and minds of the people.

The sad but unavoidable truth is that many of those jobs aren't coming back.

We all know that our unemployment rate is unacceptably high.

Many of the industries that built Connecticut's prosperity during the 20th century are in decline.

I certainly didn't, at all. We all want to create a system where business, large and small, can thrive.

Nearly 2 years after the collapse of Bear Stearns, we still have not updated the laws governing our financial sector.

The American people have been through too much. Unemployment is still too high.

The issues that Senator Shelby and I and the Members of the Committee are grappling with are difficult, they are complicated, and they are terribly important.

I think all of us are to one degree or another frustrated with the present situation in our country

I am determined as ever to get this strong bill to the floor of the Senate.

It borders on insulting to the American people who have lost so much in this crisis.

The notion of too big to fail, as I have said repeatedly, should become historic terms

I do not want just the argument of fixing a problem that created the issues we are grappling with today, but also what do we need to be thinking about as a Committee and as a Congress that goes forward.

My experience has been over the years, as we have this debate and discussion about what is proprietary trading and how you define it and limit it, that there is probably some 22-year-old sitting in the bowels of some institution that has…

I don't want to go to the floor of the U.S. Senate begging for a 60th vote.

I have gone--we have had over 52 hearings this year.

Is it too wild a suggestion to be talking about, at least temporarily, some sort of receivership?

This tragedy, as could have been expected, has brought out the best in the American people.

I'm fearful that what you're going to have happen is that this goes right back to where it was before.

We should begin by acknowledging that, aside from the monumental policy challenges posed by the disaster in Haiti, the Haitian people have experienced a tragedy on an unimaginable scale.

What about the idea of some sort of international receivership for Haiti for the next 2 or 3 years?

The Haitian people have spent generations watching their country teeter on the brink of collapse, as government after government has done little to fight corruption, ignored the rule of law, and failed to provide basic security and social…

I chair the subcommittee of the Foreign Relations Committee dealing with the Western Hemisphere and, obviously, includes the nation of Haiti, as well as served as a Peace Corps volunteer some 40 years ago on the island of Hispaniola on the…