Robert Menendez actually said...

"There are 2 ways to solve a problem. I can solve it with a blunderbuss, or I can solve it, when it is possible, with a surgeon's scalpel."

"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, a great deal."

"Now, it seems to me that one of the--asking whether proprietary trading played a role in this crisis is missing the biggest lesson of this crisis, which is how do you avert the next one."

"Isn't one of the risks here--I have posed this question throughout some time now of these hearings--that if you are too big to fail, haven't we failed already?"