Our government, we set it up. Stand or fall, put our foot down.

At what point do we say that we can't make this work?

How do you hold them accountable if they're not going to do it?

I have not met anyone in the last 20 years who does not think there is at least the appearance of corruption in the way we finance our campaigns.

it was not just corruption; it was the appearance of corruption.

I want to make sure that the system is not undermined by judges who may have a different view of the proper role of Government regulation.

I want to thank you for what you are doing, not just because you are making the sacrifice but because you bring so much to the job.

I am also concerned in the same bill of the increased concentration in the financial industry along with bailouts and other subsidies for banks that are too big to fail undermines competition by making it tougher for smaller, more…

I think it does bring home much of what we are talking about here. It comes down to people.

I tell you, it's really remarkable, in Afghanistan--to come back to Afghanistan--how much the military appreciates and now understands the civilian effort.

If we can't do it in Afghanistan, what makes us think you're--we'll be able to do it down the road?

The American people are concerned about their Court. They are concerned about effectiveness of law in America.

If they are not committed to the limited role of a Federal judge, if they are not aware that they must serve, as their oath says, under the Constitution, not above it, then they are not qualified to serve on the bench.

Clean water has been a key focus for us, because--not only because it's necessary to sustain life, but also it's key to sanitation.

I look on the Justice Department as kind of a black box on this, that I do not want to know what is going on inside the black box.

I am absolutely convinced, after the hearings we had on the Permanent Investigations Subcommittee and the studies I have been doing for this bill, that there is rampant fraud in these cases.

I think we have to recognize that as long as large financial institutions wield the kind of political power that they do in our society currently, the efficacy of our regulatory agencies is always in jeopardy.

This is just wrong. I know it is wrong. Everybody knows it is wrong. You should go to jail when you do something like what Goldman Sachs did.

We want these cases, and we are aggressively going after them.

Isn't our responsibility to make sure this does not happen again?

This is not just a Philadelphia problem. These are problems that cities are facing around the country, so it is a real Federal interest.

We cannot come back here 10 years from now and do this again.

But we are not going to solve the deficit. If we eliminated all non-defense discretionary spending, which is about $500 billion, it would not solve a $1.4 trillion deficit.

I think the main thing for me would be to have parity of resources between prosecution and defense.

Let me tell you one thing about--you know, everybody talks about bipartisanship in Washington and how hard it is.