Christopher J. Dodd: “I think Senator Akaka did it as well. Sheila Bair... has just done a remarkable job.”

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.

Where were the regulators?

I actually think the idea of actually buying these, as suggested, is not as attractive as the insurance idea.

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