"Almost all of the decline that we have seen since the dot-com bubble, 1995-1996, 75 percent of the decline actually in the number of public companies occurred prior to the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley."
"the number of public company material financial statement restatements has gone down 90 percent from 460 restatements in 2005 to 51 restatements in 2016."
"I am not going to argue with you. I take your point. I actually think there is some balance here."
"I would like to echo the ranking member's gratitude for the substantive and generally nonpartisan approach of these hearings."
"The premise was that Dodd-Frank regulations were harming capital markets. And if you look at capital markets, actually, there is not much data to support that."
"I strongly support--I just don't believe that FDIC-supported institutions should be making proprietary bets."
"Well, it turns out there was collusion. And it wasn't by some random person in Ohio. It was by the president's son."
"No campaign takes help from a hostile foreign power."
"Well, it's important generally because, you know, as an elected official, as a politician, I'll be the first to say, some times the media gets it wrong, some times you don't feel fairly treated. But, ..."
"What you saw today was just a dog's breakfast of uncertainty and lack of charity about what happened."
"I have the very best intelligence agencies in the world. They caught you red handed. Here is the evidence, if you ever do this again or think about this again, at a time and place of my choosing, I wi..."
"I actually am glad that the meeting occurred. I'm glad that the President was clear on Article V."