"You had a responsibility to your customers, and you failed big-time."
"It seems more like a scene out of a made-for-TV movie than actual real-life U.S. policy."
"it is past time, past time for action."
"the EPA has failed, failed for more than 30 years, in its cleanup of nuclear waste dating back to the Manhattan Project and World War II."
"the EPA has time and again made promises that failed to deliver results."
"Since Dodd-Frank, we have seen bank small-business loans decline by 11 percent, and 58 percent of startups report unmet financing needs."
"Antiquity smuggling and the sale of cultural artifacts has, frankly, been occurring since the 1980s and 1990s under the regime of Saddam Hussein."
"Understanding the prominence of this activity and how it intersects with our financial institutions and markets is critical to cutting off this source of funding for terrorists."
"That is a huge hole, yes."
"So a uniform system that all can be a part of and buy into across-the-board is what is, I am assuming, necessary in this space."
"I would submit here for the record that we are successful because we do it because we don't care who gets the credit at the end of the day."