"I commend you for having this hearing because it is a great opportunity for us."
"For too long, Americans have suffered from unsafe pharmaceuticals coming into this country from foreign manufacturers and counterfeit drug operations."
"Some have said it is as much as $75 million a year. I think it is rather more."
"I believe that we must impose severe penalties at least equivalent to similar violations relating to different kinds of products so as to discourage their continued operation."
"Do you believe having this authority would discourage counterfeit drug operations from shipping their products into the United States? Yes or no."
"I hope that we will be able to use this hearing as a mechanism to move forward towards safety of our people from bad pharmaceuticals as we have done with regard to bad food safety, and I would hope my..."
"I said Frank, that is a lot of hooey."
"User fees in that regard both with regard to food and with regard to pharmaceuticals would ease your financial stresses and strains, would it not?"
"I would be willing to bet if somebody were to put movies down there at some of the points where these things are imported, we would find the same situation is going on."
"I find it haunting as her lawyer hesitatingly admitted that her case might never have brought to court had a $250,000 noneconomic damages cap been in place."
"It seems that making drug companies less responsible would not help doctors."
"It denounces this hearing. It denounces the purposes of my Republican colleagues. It denounces the fiction that we are going to be hearing this morning from the other side of the aisle."