"I want to thank all of our witnesses for what was a truly enlightening and educational discussion."
"I do not know that it advanced the campaign against ESG. I think it reaffirmed the basic principles of the free market."
"ESG considerations are totally consistent with an asset manager's fiduciary duties to maximize shareholder value."
"It would be at least arguably a violation of it to disregard all of those kinds of concerns."
"If Illinois wants to look at...Purdue's actual record, what they are doing with Oxycontin...that is your choice."
"The ESG Index is obviously performing a lot better than the general stock index."
"SVB's collapse was a failure of governance and describing it as a textbook case of corporate mismanagement."
"If you want to look at Purdue's actual record, what they are doing with Oxycontin and Oxycodone... that is your choice."
"If Texas wants to spend an extra half billion dollars on interest payments to make a totally political, totally partisan anti-woke statement, then have at it."
"Do not talk to me about global elites because I was here for the years of the Trump Administration."
"That is the difference between a free market democratic society and an authoritarian or totalitarian society."
"I hope that we will bring in this process, Mr. Chairman, real business people and other private asset managers to testify about how outrageous and indefensible it is to assault the free market in this..."