"The safety of our transit system is a major question and a major failure that we need to address."
"The failure should be seen through the three prisms. One is the failure of the bank executives and the board."
"the average person in our country has a bank balance of around $5,000."
"the special assessment fee that will be imposed upon banks could be as high as $220 billion."
"those folks, because of the actions of the regulators and this Administration, will now be bailing out those who had balances of $5 million."
"one of the best decisions I made when I became a Senator was to go undercover and ride through mass transportation systems in my State"
"We may not always see eye to eye on a number of issues, but your availability was helpful in understanding and appreciating the actions of the administration."
"The only thing missing in that COVID relief bill was COVID relief."
"Spending and printing trillions of dollars, caving to the radical left in this country, seeing policies posited and then implemented that led to the worst inflation in 40 years."
"Some of my colleagues have threatened the Nation's full faith and credit by holding the debt ceiling hostage for partisan politics."
"the most radical approach to a problem that was in our rear-view mirror being used as a Trojan Horse to bring in a level of socialism and spending that our Nation has not seen in my lifetime."
"it is essential, you said, that 'we stick to our statutory goals and authorities and that we resist the temptation to broaden our scope to address other important social issues of the day.'"