Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"Many of us in Congress, led by Senator Durbin, tried to include in the TARP legislation a provision that could have kept millions of families in their homes at zero cost--zero cost--to the taxpayers."

"Well, it has been a long ordeal for our witnesses. So, all I will say is that we look forward to your practical, forward looking and optimistic voices around here."

"I just want to observe that it takes a bold legislator to want to go back into that blasted wasteland, and I'm delighted that you are doing it."

"I appreciate very much my friend from Missouri's passionate defense of union wage scales and the kind of middle class life that unionized employment can bring to the middle class."