Political Quotes

“Fraudulent Fab. As he talked, I heard no remorse. I heard folks basically saying, This is the way we do it, this is how we do it, and almost implying that it was none of our business, none of the business of the Senate or the House. The sad part about it, as I sat there, I really wanted to almost come through the television screen because I thought about all of the people who have lost so much, have lost so much over the last few years. The people who have lost their homes, lost their savings, lost their jobs, lost opportunities. Children cannot go to school. They can't get loans. Yet, still folks sitting there from Goldman almost acting as if, You know what, don't even bother asking us about what we do. It's our business. Well, it's not just their business because it affects almost every single American, the types of things they do. That's why 60 Members of this Congress wrote to the SEC--and I'm very glad to see Mary Schapiro taking over the SEC and doing what needs to be done--and said to them, Look, we're glad that you're bringing the civil action, but we also want you to look at other deals similar to this one because we want to get to the bottom of this. And we also said that if any money was paid from AIG to Goldman and Paulsen and it was ill-gotten, we want our money back. But we said another thing. We said that if there appeared to be criminal activity, we wanted it referred to the Justice Department so that they could take appropriate action.…”