I think publicly saying what we think we ought to do about Jerusalem would be a massive mistake.

someone has got to get up and say, 'I am not going to do it.'

until corporations decide that they are not going to abide by the Internet freedom good neighbor policy, we are going to be aiding and abetting, as we have in the past, regimes from blocking the Internet, and a lot of it is being done with…

There is hardly anything I can think of that is more important than the free exchange of ideas if we are going to be successful in having a peaceful world over the next 20, 30, 40, 50 years.

leaders don't want is--they don't want Voice of America broadcasting about corruption and things like this and exposing it to the rest of the continent.

I think one of the geniuses of the Obama proposal, is the setting of a deadline of July 2011 for us to leave, for the very reason that I think you said, which is it concentrates the mind.

When you move into a country for free elections, the first casualty is a free press.

If you don't have a free press, we know what the result is; we don't have the institution, we don't have the rule of law.

having a free media is not something to be feared, but it's something that can strengthen a state and strengthen a society.

the good news is, these governments repress terrorists; the bad news is, they repress everybody.

In the boom-and-bust cycle brought about by the speculative housing bubble and all of its attendant fraud, the average American paid an enormous price, as we talked about.

If you send a clear message you're going after these con men and these fraudsters, you can really prevent a lot of crime.

I picture some of these guys that were involved--mostly guys--in these high-flying deals, taking their Ferraris down Wall Street while the government was chugging behind in a Model T Ford.

We've got to deal with this transparency problem. There's billions of dollars being traded and we do not know what's going on there.

As we only begin to climb out of this deep, dark hole, we must not lose sight of the lessons.

you can't have regulation if you don't have transparency

I'm a very strong proponent of criminal prosecutions that involve serious jail sentences for white collar criminals.

democracy and free markets are the two things that make America.

The first one is: we can never let this happen again. We have to break the mentality of grabbing the money before the house burns down.

I am very concerned that only timely and effective examination, such as what this Committee is going through, which leads to clear and enforceable rules can maintain the integrity of U.S. capital markets, which we all know is an essential…

Technological developments have far outpaced--far outpaced--regulatory oversight, and traders who buy and sell stocks in milliseconds--capitalizing everywhere on very small price differential in a highly fragmented marketplace--now…

We must ensure that retail investors are not relegated to second-tier status.

As we move toward meaningful health care reform, we must ensure that criminals who engage in health care fraud... face swift prosecution and substantial punishment.

the single most important question we have to answer in Afghanistan has to do with governance

I think it is really extraordinary that when you have two countries where you have 56 percent of the people in one country and 73 percent of the people in the other country listening to U.S. international broadcasting on a regular basis…