Christopher J. Dodd: “So the question is whether or not... you would recommend that there be some statutory response to that.”

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

Senator Mel Martinez, of Florida, a Republican member of this Committee, and Dianne Feinstein, the Senator from California, were the two who really argued very strongly.

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.