Alan Grayson

What I want to hear is I want to hear your best ideas about how we should hold accountable the people who have already screwed up.

Do you support family values? Then let us give the 27 million Americans who don't have a chance to be with their families a chance to spend some more time with their families.

I believe that the passage of those two bills will make significant gains in the health, productivity, and well-being of our workforce and our country.

How many American employees never get a day off? Guess. The number is over 27 million.

It is legal to destroy your company and hand the taxpayer a hundred billion dollar bill.

I too believe that a healthy worker is a happy worker. And a happy worker is a productive worker.

Nobody is being held accountable for that. Nobody is being punished for that.

I will admit there are some people who tell me that they oppose this bill, and I ask them one question: Do you get a vacation? The answer is always yes.

How could a $192 million loss result in a $100-billion-plus loss to the taxpayers? How is that possible?

Can you give me some idea of the justification for a company like Fannie Mae increasing its exposure to derivatives?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?'

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