Claire McCaskill actually said...

"I understand that there is--we are trying to hone in on why I have got so many unemployed people in my State."

"There is nothing in a synthetic CDO that is essential to certainty to anybody's business other than somebody just deciding they want to take one side of a deal and the other side of a deal."

"None of that seems like even-steven. None of that seems like you are an honest bookie who is trying to manage risk on both sides."

"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."