Emanuel Cleaver actually said...

"I think there are probably nine of us on this committee who were here on the day that we were informed by Ben Bernanke, Henry Paulson, and Sheila Bair, and it was one of the most awful days of my poli..."

"It would just seem to me that if there is any place we are going to have some economic leniency, it ought to be in the prevention of us repeating what happened in 2008."

"I was in here when Ben Bernanke, Christopher Cox, Sheila Bair, and Henry Paulson walked in to tell us that the financial system of this country was going down the drain by Monday."

"If you steal some potato chips from 7-Eleven, you go to jail. If you steal $20 billion from the public and send people to the poor house, you go to Bermuda to play golf."