"I hate discrimination and all of its manifestations."
"The one department that I think the whole world recognized as having the most serious problems in the Federal Government on the issue of discrimination was the Department of Agriculture."
"Commemorating the centennial of World War I has been, in many ways, a labor of love for me since I entered Congress almost 10 years ago."
"It is important to note that no other World War I memorial site was attended by such an impressive ensemble of dignitaries."
"I tend to probably side with you on 99 percent of everything you said, but I am shocked that anybody would be shocked--"
"I am hoping that the same thing can happen in every department."
"Yes, I would agree. But what you do is that you revisit any of the rules that became an impediment to the game, which is not what we are doing. You want to make the rules better. The problem is that i..."
"I think if Fannie and Freddie are to persist, either in government-sponsored form or in privatized form, we are going to have to build into--we are going to have to let them have capital, first, to pr..."
"So they don't have to retain 5 percent, correct?"
"I think it was Warren Buffett, I am not sure--I don't think I missed a single meeting when we were dealing with Dodd-Frank."
"This is one of the committees, I think, where there is an attempt to avoid having fact-free debates."