We need to do much more than that, and as we all have said, if we really want sanctions to be able to have a significant bite, they are going to have to be multilateral.

The question is whether it is a determination that you can't, as Dr. Maloney said, you are not going to affect the outcome.

If I am sitting in a camp, still facing pretty dismal conditions and worried about my security and/or my life, the counsels of patience and delay do not satisfy me.

It just seems to me that when we create the impression that we are reassessing without action, then I think if I was the Iranians and my goal was theirs, that I would love all these reassessments.

The critical thing is that we do something and we do something quickly if Iran doesn't respond to our offer by the deadline that the administration has set.

Iran is not simply an existential threat to our ally in the Middle East--Israel--but it is a threat.

The G-8 has set the September meeting of the G-20 as supposedly a deadline for Iran to accept negotiations or face stronger sanctions.

In practice, a corporation serves multiple masters, right? It has shareholders, it has corporate management, its creditors, the public in general.

There are many cases where what is best for corporate management may not necessarily be the best for shareholders.

I want to commend Senator Warner and Senator Corker for the introduction of the TARP Recipient Ownership Trust Act.

The argument was a stakeholder argument, that there were shareholders, there were employees, there were communities, there were suppliers, there were customers, all of which had a legitimate position in the decisions.

I think Commissioner Paredes' proposal is much more reasonable in that it considers facilitation of State law rights.