"Would you agree that we would have to legislate in order to give you--in other words--"
"Would it be safe to say, in my last 20 seconds, that the future is not too bright for the nonbank financial institutions in terms of having any reduction in their capital requirements?"
"So my question to you, I guess, as a result is, if we impose the bank-centric capital requirements on insurance companies, would that have done anything to have saved AIG from its financial collapse o..."
"I think it is important that we acknowledge that having a healthy debate on the debt ceiling is prudent and responsible."
"I firmly believe that our sovereign debt should not go unpaid, but there is a tremendous difference between borrowing money to pay for an IRS 'Star Trek' video and paying our sovereign debt."
"Unfortunately, the SEC missed that deadline. Unfortunately, this becomes endemic, not only with the SEC but with any agency under the jurisdiction of Dodd-Frank."
"But isn't that what the market does?"
"So, they are sitting on the sidelines. In other words, investment capital is waiting."
"I think that one of the things, I would really enjoy working with this Committee, is trying to find an enforcement mechanism."
"The time for waiting is over."
"I think that what we are trying to do is recognize that we have a problem here and I think that a lot of it has been covered up and the issue is a lot worse than what we know it to be."