Christopher J. Dodd: “That has never stopped the Committee up here before.”

I hope that we will get in the next administration regulators who understand what their duty and obligation is.

As Franklin Roosevelt said so eloquently more than 80 years ago, it is fear, and that fearing fear is what has, I think, had an awful lot to do with the lack of confidence in our country, and we need to get our confidence back.

I think our strength as a country relies on us as being an attractive model, and that has been diminished.

I think Senator Akaka did it as well. Sheila Bair... has just done a remarkable job.