"I have great confidence in our numbers."
"Treasury may have pursued policy objectives in overpaying for assets, but if so, they did not clearly articulate those objectives."
"when Citibank is declared a healthy bank and then within a matter of weeks is declared at risk of bringing down the whole system, we have to have some skepticism about the identification of these bank..."
"We received a response on December 30. We have posted that response on our Web site."
"What it suggests to us is that the CBO numbers are understated."
"They paid a uniform price. That is they said, we are going to pay the same amount--we will give you the same number of dollars and the same return regardless of whether or not you are a very risky fin..."
"Well, I think it is a very creative idea, the notion that your own money is on the line..."
"I see our role as much more of looking at things like the structure overall, whether or not we have a framework that is going to work or is it just ad hoc, how things are put together."
"I think this is a really hard question. I am not confident, A--that we wouldn't have done something else."
"We are not lending because we can figure out a better way to make money with this money."
"One possibility, they could say they are not lending because there aren't good lending opportunities."
"We think it is really important that you back up and say, maybe the problem is different."