Political Quotes

“our Nation is experiencing a crisis in confidence among the investing public. Americans hear on the news and read in the papers every day more and more cases of corporate executives bilking employees and investors, and of auditors who looked the other way, of boards of directors failing to provide the oversight expected of them, and of well-connected investors buying and selling stock based on insider information. Investors do not know who they can trust. We have been in a mad rush the last many years to make sure that the quarter you are involved in has a good financial statement. People go to whatever ends they can to make sure that that quarterly statement looks good to keep the stock price up. That is all that matters. It does not matter whether the company is losing money. It does not matter if their employees are being laid off. It does not matter, as long as they do everything they can to do what can be done to make sure that stock price stays the same or goes up. I have spoken previously on efforts of Senators to secure the future for American families.”