Sherrod Brown actually said...

"You would be satisfied, you would consider it a victory for U.S. manufacturing, the U.S. economy, the U.S. Government, all of us, if China did 5 percent a year for the next 3 or 4 years?"

"When I hear 'if they show progress,' that suggests patience, and there is--and it always suggests to me when I think about China and patience, I think of when Chou En-Lai was asked when he was--I thin..."

"The Congress, as you know, passed the Cash for Clunkers, which I was actually speaking today with the CEO of General Motors before I came over here about this hearing."

"Elizabeth Warren came to see me the other day--I think you all know her--and she is a brilliant woman who has pretty much--I heard her sort of predict what housing was going to do to us 2 years ago."