Political Quotes

“Let me say, first, from the discussion that we have been having all over America, and on the floor of the Senate for the last few weeks about trying to reinsert some responsibility and accountability because of the fundamental notion we believe in this country that everybody-- every person, every company, big business, small business, and everybody in America--should be responsible and accountable for what they do, one of the reasons we have had such a downslide in Wall Street lately is people have lost confidence in the responsibility of people who run some--I emphasize ``some''--of the companies that have been on the front pages of the newspapers for the last several months. What they want us to do is reimpose some of that corporate responsibility. So we work very hard on that. At a time when the focus is on trying to make sure we have real responsibility and real accountability in this country, the President yesterday went to my home State to do exactly the opposite.”