Amy Klobuchar

The Europeans are using it as a smokescreen for their own regulation failure.

As a former prosecutor, when you have these Ponzi schemes and the Madoff case and things that result from these loose and ineffectual regulations from the past, so we could at least beef up some of the law enforcement's efforts in this…

We should make it very clear that our banks cannot deal with financial institutions and banks from these jurisdictions that don't comply with the highest standards of regulation.

I am in favor of better regulation of behavior, as Dr. Hoenig laid out, but I am afraid that we have seen time and again, all our regulators, particularly around big finance, get captured.

I appreciate this. Sounds like a very interesting discussion.

I just think it is unfair if we think that kids in certain urban districts are going to have the same kind of food that their parents are going to send to school with them.

I want to save money here and I see this as saving money in health care costs and saving money in how we buy, purchase food.

But the way we have been doing it hasn't been working. These kids are getting fatter and fatter.

If it was working, I would say, fine, Mr. Felton, but it doesn't seem to be working for these kids.

$50 billion--$50 billion--every 4 years that we can save.

Yet, they have the highest quality and lowest cost of health care around.

Miami, Florida, $15,000 for the same package of Medicare services that is $7,000 in the Twin Cities.

I just do not think this is the way we want to go. I do not think you do either in terms of having individual patients trying to negotiate rates.

We cannot neglect this issue of making sure, as we look at reform, that these are offered in the most efficient way.

We have to make it as efficient as possible.

Medicare has systematically been underpaying for services.

The biggest variations occur when there is not a clear-cut path for the one right thing to do.

This is a safety-net program for our elderly, and we really must make sure that it's fiscally responsible and sustainable.

This team--the medical team idea... is where you often find the lower rates.

We shouldn't be operating in an evidence-free zone when it comes to the protection of our natural resources.

Well, compared to Delaware, a woman can always do the work of two men.

Despite all the big challenges going on, is working tirelessly to fill as many seats in government as there are in a hockey arena.

The national parks have always been a part of my family's history.

In Minnesota, we love our fishing.

A bridge just shouldn't fall down in the middle of America.