"We have to put some changes in place and get out this issue."
"I think the President of the United States is trying to send the right message."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Secretary Geithner, it is good to have you here, and I know you have been logging some serious hours."
"I would especially appreciate your listening to the good folks at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities."
"In your view, does the Government have adequate legal authority to prevent future AIGs?"
"For the life of me, I cannot understand why the American people do not have a right to know who the counterparties are."
"To keep the public in the dark on these counterparties does not pass the smell test."
"to keep people completely in the dark as to who is being rescued and why, in my view, Mr. Secretary, is going to undermine the credibility that you are going to need in order to make additional reform..."
"How would you feel about having your health care taxed? about 107 percent say, 'No way,' usually accompanied by some pretty choice curse words before the words 'No way.'"
"You know, these tax rules look like they go mostly to the well-off and we are interested in trying to come up with a way that will give you working-class people a tax break and help us to hold down co..."
"I am trying to figure out what is in these bills that will lower their premiums, and I cannot find very much."
"A lot of the workers in this country who are being told they are going to get expanded choices, according to my analysis and Kaiser, are going to wake up and find they don't have that expanded array o..."