Emanuel Cleaver actually said...

"I listened to Ben Bernanke this past Sunday on one of the shows, and he said he thought that the Great Recession was worse than the Depression because of the whiplash that is still being felt."

"What I am hoping to finish my sentence, if everybody disagrees, it would seem to me that it is logical if we had men and women of good will sit down here and figure out a way to bring some legislation..."

"I am concerned about the fact that for something of this significance, why we wouldn't have someone here from the Labor Department."

"the Federal Government leans to the East Coast in almost everything, including spending."