"the Congress adopted a measure... of a commitment of some $50 billion out of these TARP resources that you have toward mitigating the foreclosure crisis"
"We cannot restore the credibility of our financial institutions and put our economy back on track until we restore the credibility of the Government's response."
"Americans want the plan to work. My colleagues want it to work. I believe all of us do."
"I happen to believe as between the choices of spending our time on going back and reviewing how we got here and the question of how do we get out of this, I don't have any question in my mind which is..."
"I would have made that my first point, because in a way, I happen to believe... the failure to address the mortgage, the residential mortgage crisis 2 years ago"
"I would strongly recommend--in fact, I will ask you that as this moves forward..."
"this is infuriating to watch these decisions be completely conflictive of what we are looking at."
"It is literally infuriating."
"It is important we hear from you, obviously, but our constituents also want to know what we believe about this."
"I appreciate the witnesses appearing today and look forward to hearing you."
"None of us wants to trivialize this situation, and so the issue of executive compensation is not to trivialize it all."