Tom Harkin actually said...

"I enthusiastically endorse and introduce Gary Gensler to the Committee to be the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission."

"The financial sector has come up with all of these exotic products. No one really understands them except maybe a few people on Wall Street"

"Again and again, actions in our futures markets have caused some havoc across our country and economy."

"I asked the question in our October hearing, I said, what market forces out there demanded these products? Who was demanding this? The answer came, no one."