Mike Quigley actually said...

"I sure don't need to be convinced that this is a serious problem. I come from Illinois, which seems to compete with California..."

"What I'm trying to get both sides to do is to work with the same numbers."

"All local governments need to reinvent themselves, streamline and consolidate, not because they don't matter, but because they matter very, very much."

"Introducing a bankruptcy statute would force bondholders to all States to question the legal regime."