David Vitter actually said...

"The status quo is a really perverse and rigged system that allows Wall Street to suck in innocent investors."

"So, do you think it was a fair characterization in making that argument that in buying CDs, these customers were loaning the broker-dealers money?"

"I represent a lot of Stanford investors."

"it seems to me that is particularly ironic that it is least certain in many cases of outright fraud versus market failure."