Jack Reed actually said...

"the principal goal of the conservator should be to preserve taxpayer money"

"the policy of the President to prevent the Iranian Government from obtaining nuclear weapons--and that is a policy that I agree with and concur with."

"You have led the way with proposals to expand the effectiveness of the HAMP program to make it more useful."

"It is not perfect. Seldom do we do perfect things here. But it is progress and we have not seen a lot of progress over the last few years."