Alan Grayson

As we know, those who don't understand history are doomed to repeat it.

Somewhere along the line, somebody should have had the authority and the guts to say to AIG, you are doing something wrong.

So when I vote to support you, to support veterans around the district and around our country, I feel what I am really doing is honoring my father.

Veterans deserve timely access to health services.

I remain gravely concerned about taxes in the President's budget, and in fact, I remain concerned about our overall tax policy.

The Iraq War has cost America at least $1.5 trillion in tax dollars, and for that money that we have doled out to pay for the war, we could have provided health care coverage to every American who doesn't have it.

I care much more about the well-being of Floridians than I do about the well-being of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds.

I can no longer sit back and watch our constituents be exploited by failed banks dangling desperately needed access to credit.

Bad banks must be held accountable for their incompetence or we will all go broke.

The initial invasion of Iraq made no sense, and with the current financial problems we are facing it makes even less sense.

The Cold War has been over, Mr. Chairman, for almost 20 years. It is time these weapons programs are ended.

The President himself said during his address to Congress that we need to, and I quote him, reform our Defense budget so that we are not paying for Cold War-era weapons systems that we don't use, unquote.

What I am seeing is a massive transfer of wealth from the taxpayers to the banks in the name of systemic risk.

Have you heard the phrase, Mr. Pandit, 'Heads, I win; tails, you lose?'

You tell me where I can get a deal like that.

You call it insurance, but that word does not appear anywhere in this document, does it?

Well, you know, a billion here a billion there. Soon you are talking real money, Mr. Pandit.

We are all struggling here with ways to try to get the economy moving again, and we are all looking to the credit markets to make that happen.

The development fund of Iraq was looted by war profiteers and war whores.

No, they were getting cash. There was over $600 million of cash disseminated, with essentially no controls at all.