"And if we are worried about litigation, I can predict to you 10 more years of crippling litigation in the wake of these two measures because they leave the basic legal problems unresolved."
"I recognize and respect the feeling of obligation that you feel and I share for the oppression and the injustice that has been visited by our nation on Native Americans."
"We are very eager and willing and ready to continue participating in this process, working toward a common solution."
"possibly our greatest ally in the world, besides Britain, Australia, is becoming much more public about their very deep concerns with respect both to China's military modernization, as well as our sta..."
"We know now that for 14 years, despite a clear directive from the U.S. Congress, the Federal Reserve Board took no action to ban abusive home mortgages."
"Since the very first hearings before this Committee on modernizing our financial regulatory structure, I have said that consumer protection should be a top priority in our deliberations."
"These moments are the reason that I and many of my colleagues were enraged by the spectacular failure of consumer protection that destroyed economic security for so many of our American families."
"This proposal would create a new agency, a very strong financial products watchdog and guardian."
"This financial State partnership was riven and destroyed by excessive resort to Federal preemption."
"What has happened, Senator, and that question is a very good one, is that many nonbanking institutions have, in effect, invoked the shield by aligning themselves with national banks."
"The proposal here to put a floor rather than ceiling on the impact of Federal regulation, I think is a very important one."
"I think there is some agreement that certain products should be banned."