"This is what I regard as an asset tax. And assets for banks are loans. So it runs counter, I believe, to our economic interest."
"I believe the insolvency of Social Security in 2023 to be real."
"The success of our capital markets in the United States has to do a lot with property rights and contract law and certainty of our regime, as well as wise regulation, not the absence of regulation, wh..."
"By all means, government, here, you can have this information. Proliferate it widely. Others are being attacked. This will help us all."
"One of the things that we would really ask Congress to do is just better define clarity on information-sharing."
"the Obama Administration has been largely unresponsive to this committee's legitimate oversight function."
"Those who were advising him. Was Mr. Mincberg one of those advising him?"
"Mr. Mincberg asked your office to withhold this information from the House Financial Services Committee. Is that correct?"
"I believe that this is only the tip of the iceberg."
"Today's hearing will lay bare the falsity of these high-minded claims."
"I look forward to Mr. Montoya's testimony today, and I think it will expose a shocking set of behaviors."