"The fact of the matter is, if that wasn't the case, I might not be sitting here today because certain times, my parents had to rob Peter to pay Paul to help me get through school."
"The whole idea, I think, is to put the loan shark, as my good friend Mr. Baca indicated, out of business."
"I think we have to determine it as legislators, and I don't have any more time, but just saying that those are the kinds of questions that we have, or I have, and I would love to know what you think i..."
"I am keenly aware of the risks associated with the U.S. companies venturing into intellectual markets less regulated and protected than our own."
"Dodd-Frank came into existence because we wanted to fix the problem so that we would not be where we were."
"To the extent that governments fail to punish human rights violators, they are complicit."
"We strive to expand and strengthen our partnership with the Russian Federation, and that is the goal even of this human rights legislation."
"The people of the United States have a tradition older than our Nation of relying on government to protect their liberty and their basic rights."
"I think he was absolutely on target."
"If you starve the SEC from funding, I don't know how they can be successful."
"But when it comes to protecting our investors and patrolling our securities markets, it seems as though all of a sudden, my colleagues on the other side become Scrooges."