Bruce Poliquin

There is no free lunch, Mr. Hochberg, everybody knows that.

The threat of terrorism around the world is also to disrupt our quality of life, our way of life, our prosperity, and our freedoms.

It is really critical that we stay as a country on offense; we must prevent this risk from coming to our homeland.

I hope you will speak up, to make sure the pension fund business, the mutual fund business... won't be held under this umbrella because it will only hurt them.

The bloodline of our economy... is in part the financial services industry and the capital markets.

I would also like to encourage you to resist any temptation from the Federal Reserve or the Department of Labor... it will only hurt the people we are trying to help.

I am very concerned that this wide net of Dodd-Frank is now about to engulf them and designate them as SIFI organizations.

America's free market, capitalist system has produced some tremendous lifestyles and standards of living for millions of Americans.

What gives you the right, or anybody who works for you the right, or your agency the right, to tell businesses who are operating legally in this country...

I would just encourage you, Mr. Ceresney, as you go through this process, to make sure you are looking out for these middle-class families who are trying to prepare for their retirement by being fair to the people who are brought before…

When you have huge agencies like HUD that are responsible for doing good things for the American people, but abuse and misuse taxpayer dollars...

Don't you think it is appropriate, sir, that Fannie and Freddie, especially organizations of this size that are backstopped by the taxpayers, also ought to live by the same rules as our nongovernment financial institutions when it comes to…

I hope that one day we can get the government out of the homeowner business and get it back in the private sector where it belongs.