Claire McCaskill actually said...

"I want to make a bet. I want to go short on all these really bad mortgage loans that are out there that are all going to start going belly up."

"The premise is that when people are in debt and worried, they are more easily persuaded that someone can help them, because they're desperate for help."

"I will not sit on this committee--and I know the Chairman--the Chairman will not--and I know, having gone through the confirmation for the new Commissioner at the FTC--I can't decide which is worse, t..."

"I am clearly standing on their shoulders. They have been tilling in this field for years and years."