Frank Lautenberg: “I do not remember the people in the boardrooms where I spent some time, or people in business conferences where I spent…”

“I do not remember the people in the boardrooms where I spent some time, or people in business conferences where I spent a lot of time, or people who shared in the responsibilities in these companies--I very seldom heard a business leader, a CEO, a chairman of the board saying, ``I have been fleecing my customers and I have been doing it for a long time, but we do not have to do anything else.'' Around here, in these last days, I heard people suggest that we ought to tell the American people the truth, that we ought to stop the deception, that we ought to come straight. I do not know who they were talking about. I can tell you I resent it if the accusation includes me and some of the finest people I have ever known who worked hard here trying to do their best, trying to always level with the public.”