Pat Ryan actually said...

"I am going to, in the interest of time, make my opening remarks, as prepared, into the record instead of sharing the full text of my remarks now."

"If you want to talk about budgets, why don't you look at our 2009 budget, which was the last budget we as a conference actually did, instead of an individual piece of legislation that I introduced?"

"I think you guys have done--with a horrible economic situation over the past couple of years--have done a pretty good job."

"you guys have saved the auto industry."