Christopher J. Dodd: “We need to, as a country, both parties, all of our leaders need to work together to try to reverse this image.”

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.

We do not need ideology, and we do not need politics. We need clear-headed thinking.

I hope that you will consider at the appropriate time making sure that we have some oversight of what's going on in that rescue plan.

I find it ironic that we can keep a CEO in their office, but we cannot keep a family in their home.