"How could they forget this document? This is the document--and it's a legal counsel opinion that basically says you can ignore the law."
"Mr. Chairman, I do have a point of information, because I did ask, and I got an answer from the head of the loan program..."
"you specifically said you can't subordinate the taxpayer unless you got some approval from the Department of Justice."
"I mean, if you're concerned that somebody-- please don't comply with the law, and then you don't hear back from them..."
"Mary Miller is involved in an email where she says, I may be on a call tomorrow morning about the Solyndra loan restructuring."
"the Medicare system is collapsing, and unless there is some fundamental restructuring of it to change the incentives and the way it works, the system can't stand up or it will swallow up increasing am..."
"I am kind of shocked that some of my colleagues on the other side are now claiming that when the President said this, he really didn't mean it."
"We passed a budget and our budget was actually geared at getting us back on the path to a balanced budget."
"He ought to mean what he says. And I think the American people deserve to hold him to the things he says."
"I think as we have more hearings like this, I think it does put more pressure and put more sunshine on the fact that we really do need to be doing more on all fronts to not only find waste in governme..."
"the President's own actuaries, President Obama's handpicked actuaries confirmed that Medicare goes bankrupt in 12 years if we don't do anything."