"The insurance industry did not cause the financial meltdown."
"Whatever views my colleagues may have regarding bailouts--I personally oppose them--I hope we can correct an injustice in Dodd-Frank that impacts insurance companies and our constituents."
"Forcing insurance companies to pay twice, into the State guarantee funds and into the new Orderly Liquidation Fund (OLF), could have widespread repercussions for our constituents and for the economy."
"Why should our constituents pay higher rates for life or property/casualty insurance premiums for bad decisions made on Wall Street?"
"I just see a real lack of accountability and prosecution."
"The only way you change behavior more than that is when you put somebody in jail. That really is a game changer."
"I think when we have consent decrees where nobody admits any guilt and they only pay a relatively minor fine, that it will not change bad behavior."
"It sounds like we are going to build a world-class waste of taxpayers' money, quite frankly."
"They had great intel, and they knew what Madoff was doing wrong for 10 years; they just refused to take any action."
"So many agencies now have just turned into lobbyist manufacturing machines."
"A condescending attitude of evasiveness and arrogance and defiance is what fuels the public distrust in this process."