Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I listened with interest to the presentations made here in the previous hour, and there were a couple of visuals that I want to look at and commit some of that to memory. I heard from Ms. Kaptur that this is not a partisan issue, it is an economic issue and an American issue, and I agree. I have been troubled for some time not just the influence that comes out of Goldman Sachs, but the influence that comes out of Wall Street. Here is my concern and here how it was internalized. I lived much of my life watching from a distance what was going on on Wall Street, and I believed that as those investors and those bankers sat down there and began to trade on the streets of Wall Street and began to build the edifices that exist there today so very close to Ground Zero, that they were keepers of the free enterprise flame in America. {time} 1815 I had great trust that they were the ones that understood from the top down, from the multiple billions of dollars in investments down, how to hold together free enterprise, how to plan for the long term, how to put provisions in place so that each generation could have that opportunity to do free enterprise capitalism and free market capitalism. I got my first wide open eyes when I first went to Wall Street when I was elected to Congress; it would be fairly early in 2003 for me.…”