"I want to commend you and the Ranking Member for holding this hearing to examine TARP."
"I will filibuster to the end of the earth if we don't have something that protects people who are making their payments from not being called."
"There is a legitimate debate about how well the program has been managed, and history will determine whether or not the decision we made in September and October was the right one."
"Had the administration 2 years ago taken on the issue of the residential mortgage market more seriously, and they obviously didn't, we wouldn't have been in that situation in September, in my view."
"My only hope is here that this will be better managed, it will get our capital markets moving, that with this good, well-crafted stimulus program here to put people back to work, along with other step..."
"I think there is a danger here that we are debating the September debate."
"What we are trying to do here, we would like to make it better tomorrow, but if we can stop making it worse tomorrow, that is a major achievement at this point."
"I am going to recommend that we try to set up some more frequent, even with our staffs necessarily, so there is a more ongoing relationship."
"I want to know immediately. I do not need to get letters. Just tell me when you are not getting answers."
"the issue of the subject matter of this hearing, the modernization of the U.S. financial regulatory system."
"Let me thank all of my colleagues, and I think you all understood we intended, obviously, at some time earlier to have this hearing a little earlier."