"your example is almost a perfect example of why we need regulation, not why we were suffering from too much regulation."
"I think that, along with these rate reviews that Senator Feinstein is proposing, minimum loss ratio is an important element in holding health insurance companies accountable."
"I'm proud that over 90 percent of insured Minnesotans get their coverage from a nonprofit health insurer."
"the Federal Government does something, it's bad, and it's good if private innovation does it."
"the cause of these brownouts and the extra charges to the State of California was not caused by regulation, but was caused by companies like Enron ripping Granny off?"
"Congress' job of triage in this case, as Senator Franken noted, is to eliminate the glaring problems first."
"The legislation that you have introduced and Senator Hatch has introduced on school leadership I think is an exemplar of what can be done in school leadership."
"McNamara's fallacy is that things that can be easily measured will be measured and will be considered important."
"I want to make sure that the Department of Justice--make sure that conditions, merger conditions would actually have enough teeth and have a long enough life that they would really impose real conditi..."
"I would hope that I could in my office and the folks over at DOJ who are looking at this can have an exchange of ideas on this because this is something that affects people in ways they do not underst..."
"Clearly, this model worked by intervening early and minimizing more damage, and clearly we have a problem as long as any suicide is occurring among our youth."